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blood meal

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blood meal
1. an epidemiological term meaning the stomach contents of a blood-sucking insect which can be used to study the spread of specific infections.
2. a protein supplement containing 80 to 85% of protein. Is too unpalatable to constitute a large proportion of the diet.


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If you want to go strictly organic, fertilize with blood meal, hoof and horn meal, or cottonseed meal.
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