Glossary > Feed Ingredients > BLOOD MEAL

Blood meal is produced from clean fresh animal blood, exclusive of all extraneous material such as hair, stomach contents, etc. Blood meal may be dried by several processes, but most often by spray drying.

Spray dried blood meal comprises of approximately:
· crude protein level of 85 percent;
· crude fat, 0.5-3 percent;
· crude fibre, 2.5 percent;
· ash, 6 percent;
· lysine, 9-11 percent, with an availability of 80-90 percent.