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Sheep wool offers a source of healthier diets for our pets

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Sheep wool offers a source of healthier diets for our pets Our Science Our Science Animal ScienceSubletSystems and EnvironmentSuppliesand Bio-based Products Forage Science Read Our Research Doing Business Doing Business Working for you Māori Agribusiness Our Partners Products and ServicesWell-nighUsWell-nighUs Meet Our People Our Organisation Purpose & Values Our Subsidiaries & Joint Ventures Our Land and Water News Contact Careers BACK TO NEWSSupplies& Bio-Based Products Sheep wool offers a source of healthier diets for our pets Proteins from wool can be widow to the diets of animals to modernize their health, AgResearch scientists have shown.The positive findings in the diets of domestic cats unshut up heady possibilities for new uses of sheep wool to modernize digestive health for a broader range of animals, and potentially human beings.The findings have just been published in the Royal Society of Chemistry’sSupplies& Function journal, and are misogynist by clicking here.“There is a lot of work going on to discover new uses of wool to support the sheep industry in New Zealand,” says Dr Jolon Dyer, AgResearch’s Science Group Leader forSuppliesand Bio-based Products.“The research is telling us that sheep wool has many useful attributes, and one of those now appears to be proteins derived from the wool that could be used as a dietary supplement to modernize digestion and nutrition, and therefore overall health.”Scientists used a method tabbed controlled hydrolysis to pericope the wool proteins. These protein hydrolysates taken from the wool were then widow as an ingredient in a pet supplies formulation targeted towards cats, and compared versus standard cat supplies formulations.The findings indicate that the wool protein hydrolysates offer promise as a functional ingredient in pet foods, and moreover as a new nutritional ingredient in foods generally.AgResearch senior scientist Dr Santanu Deb-Choudhury, who led the study with fellow scientist Dr Emma Bermingham, says the hydrolysates offer real potential as a supplement for pet diets.The next steps for the research will be to study the effect of the wool hydrolysate on animals other than cats.“There’s a lot of potential in terms of how it can add to the wellbeing of pets and other animals, and plane people, but we do need to see how it stacks up in the remoter research,” Dr Deb-Choudhury says. ARTICLE INFORMATION People DR. JOLON DYER For increasingly information JARROD BOOKER RELATED NEWS AgResearch scientists help develop the Wool Runner, 'the world's most well-appointed shoe'. AgResearch Meat Industry Workshop 2015 Dairy sheep - a new frontier Biopolymer Network wins KiwiNet ribbon Wool carpet to make life easier START WORKING WITH US PROVEN RESULTS AgResearch played a key role in saving New Zealand up to $133 million a year in tenancy costs, with a world first eradication of the invasive Great White Butterfly. AgResearch scientists discovered a gene which ways increasingly lambs with little uneaten effort for farmers. AgResearch has shown sheep milk has real benefits for gut health. Studies like this help grow New Zealand industries. AgResearch scientists helped develop The Wool Runner, "the world's most well-appointed shoe". AgResearch's decade-long research into neonatal lamb deaths identified key genetic, maternal and environmental factors well-expressed lamb survival – all of which has reverted sublet practices and improved survival rates. AgResearch has unsalaried $5m to the establishment of the world-class Southern Dairy Hub, which provides quality science to support the future of dairy farming in Southland and South Otago. START WORKING WITH US Find out increasingly well-nigh our science Terms and conditions