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Production under way at new poultry and animal center at Auburn University
Story Date: 11/26/2012
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Source: Michael Fielding, MEATINGPLACE, 11/23/12
One of only two such facilities in the nation, Auburn University's new $7.1 million Poultry and Animal Nutrition Center is housed inside a 12,500-square-foot steel building on a 50-acre site north of the main campus.
The state-of-the-art academic and research feed production facility includes nine prefabricated modules – each 40 feet long by 8 feet wide – that were manufactured in Minnesota and transported to Auburn on nine flatbed trailers and assembled on site.
Funded as a joint venture between Auburn and several poultry companies, the facility will allow researchers to test mixtures of poultry feed to increase production and seek additives that could reduce dependency on costly corn.
Feed produced at the facility will be used for the university's 20,000-bird research flock, but researchers from private corporations also may use it under contract for their own projects.
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