Lithium-based feed additives to battle stress

After several years of studies, Russian scientists have designed feed additives based on lithium for pigs and poultry which prevent stress in animals. A group of scientists from the All-Russia Research and Development Institute of Livestock Physiology, Biochemistry, and Feeding in the Kaluga Region spent years developing lithium-based feed additives. As explained by Konstantin Ostrenko, Head of Laboratory of Immunobiotechnology and Microbiology at the institute, in 2020, lithium ascorbate suc