Compositions for preventing or decreasing cryptosporidiosis in animals are disclosed herein. The compositions include sources of hydrogen peroxide and are fed to animals. The animals may be neonatal calves and the cryptosporidiosis may be caused by Cryptosporidium parvum. Methods of preventing or decreasing cryptosporidiosis in animals by feeding the hydrogen peroxide-generating compositions to the animals are also disclosed. Some disclosed methods reduce the number of Cryptosporidium oocysts shed by an infected animal or reduce the infectivity of Cryptosporidium oocysts shed by an infected animal. Some methods include feeding the hydrogen peroxide-generating compositions to animals ultimately afflicted with cryptosporidiosis, and the animals gain weight despite the infection.
Methods of attracting marine life and methods of stabilizing marine feeds or attractants in flowing water involve submerging stable marine attractant feed block products in water for at least 12 hours where a portion of the feed block dissociates from itself and another portion of the feed block remains intact after about 12 hours. Marine life is attracted to the dissociated portions of the feed block dissociated, and/or to the portion of the marine attractant feed block that remains intact. The feed block includes at least one of a marine feed or attractant, a binder composition, the binder composition comprising a hardening agent and a cross-linked edible polymer comprised of an edible acid and a gelatinized starch, and a sugar component, where the at least one of the marine feed or attractant is retained within a web defined by the binder and distributed throughout the marine attractant feed block.
Methods of attracting marine life and methods of stabilizing marine feeds or attractants in flowing water involve submerging stable marine attractant feed block products in water for at least 12 hours where a portion of the feed block dissociates from itself and another portion of the feed block remains intact after about 12 hours. Marine life is attracted to the dissociated portions of the feed block dissociated, and/or to the portion of the marine attractant feed block that remains intact. The feed block includes at least one of a marine feed or attractant, a binder composition, the binder composition comprising a hardening agent and a cross-linked edible polymer comprised of an edible acid and a gelatinized starch, and a sugar component, where the at least one of the marine feed or attractant is retained within a web defined by the binder and distributed throughout the marine attractant feed block.
A01N 43/16 - Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing heterocyclic compounds having rings with one or more oxygen or sulfur atoms as the only ring hetero atom with one hetero atom six-membered rings with oxygen as the ring hetero atom
Methods form animal feed compositions that exotherm and involve: providing a pourable composition comprising water and a hardening agent that exotherms to produce a pourable composition at an elevated temperature, admixing high fat pellets with the pourable composition at the elevated temperature to form an admixture, and allowing the admixture at the elevated temperature to cool and harden. The high fat pellets have at least one high melting point fat having a melt temperature equal to or greater than 60° C. (140° F.) such that the high fat pellets remain discrete in the admixture at the elevated temperature.
The present disclosure describes products formulated to mitigate viral and bacterial infections in swine, along with associated methods of providing such products to the animals. Feeding methods involve providing animals with a feed product that includes a medium chain fatty acid composition, a direct-fed microbial composition, along with one or more flavonoids and/or organic acids. The medium chain fatty acid composition includes one or more of caproic acid, caprylic acid, capric acid and lauric acid. The direct-fed microbial composition includes one or more strains of Bacillus. The animals can include swine at risk of developing, or already afflicted with, a respirator}7 condition such as porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome or pneumonia.
The present disclosure describes products formulated to mitigate viral and bacterial infections in swine, along with associated methods of providing such products to the animals. Feeding methods involve providing animals with a feed product that includes a medium chain fatty acid composition, a direct-fed microbial composition, along with one or more flavonoids and/or organic acids. The medium chain fatty acid composition includes one or more of caproic acid, caprylic acid, capric acid and lauric acid. The direct-fed microbial composition includes one or more strains of Bacillus. The animals can include swine at risk of developing, or already afflicted with, a respirator}7 condition such as porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome or pneumonia.
A01N 63/30 - Microbial fungi; Substances produced thereby or obtained therefrom
C12P 1/02 - Preparation of compounds or compositions, not provided for in groups , by using microorganisms or enzymes; General processes for the preparation of compounds or compositions by using microorganisms or enzymes by using fungi
A01N 37/36 - Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing organic compounds containing a carbon atom having three bonds to hetero atoms with at the most two bonds to halogen, e.g. carboxylic acids containing at least one carboxylic group or a thio-analogue, or a derivative thereof, and a singly bound oxygen or sulfur atom attached to the same carbon skeleton, this oxygen or sulfur atom not being a member of a carboxylic group or of a thio-anal
The present disclosure describes products formulated to mitigate viral and bacterial infections in swine, along with associated methods of providing such products to the animals. Feeding methods involve providing animals with a feed product that includes a medium chain fatty acid composition, a direct-fed microbial composition, along with one or more flavonoids and/or organic acids. The medium chain fatty acid composition includes one or more of caproic acid, caprylic acid, capric acid and lauric acid. The direct-fed microbial composition includes one or more strains of Bacillus. The animals can include swine at risk of developing, or already afflicted with, a respiratory condition such as porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome or pneumonia.
A61K 35/742 - Spore-forming bacteria, e.g. Bacillus coagulans, Bacillus subtilis, clostridium or Lactobacillus sporogenes
A23K 50/75 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for birds for poultry
A61K 31/192 - Carboxylic acids, e.g. valproic acid having aromatic groups, e.g. sulindac, 2-aryl-propionic acids, ethacrynic acid
A61K 31/20 - Carboxylic acids, e.g. valproic acid having a carboxyl group bound to an acyclic chain of seven or more carbon atoms, e.g. stearic, palmitic or arachidic acid
A61K 31/352 - Heterocyclic compounds having oxygen as the only ring hetero atom, e.g. fungichromin having six-membered rings with one oxygen as the only ring hetero atom condensed with carbocyclic rings, e.g. cannabinols, methantheline
The present disclosure describes products formulated to mitigate viral and bacterial infections in swine, along with associated methods of providing such products to the animals. Feeding methods involve providing animals with a feed product that includes a medium chain fatty acid composition, a direct-fed microbial composition, along with one or more flavonoids and/or organic acids. The medium chain fatty acid composition includes one or more of caproic acid, caprylic acid, capric acid and lauric acid. The direct-fed microbial composition includes one or more strains of Bacillus. The animals can include swine at risk of developing, or already afflicted with, a respiratory condition such as porcine reproductive respiratory syndrome or pneumonia.
A23K 50/30 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for swine
A61K 9/00 - Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form
A61K 31/192 - Carboxylic acids, e.g. valproic acid having aromatic groups, e.g. sulindac, 2-aryl-propionic acids, ethacrynic acid
A61K 31/20 - Carboxylic acids, e.g. valproic acid having a carboxyl group bound to an acyclic chain of seven or more carbon atoms, e.g. stearic, palmitic or arachidic acid
A61K 31/593 - 9,10-Secocholestane derivatives, e.g. cholecalciferol, vitamin D3
A61K 47/18 - Amines; Amides; Ureas; Quaternary ammonium compounds; Amino acids; Oligopeptides having up to five amino acids
A61K 47/46 - Ingredients of undetermined constitution or reaction products thereof, e.g. skin, bone, milk, cotton fibre, eggshell, oxgall or plant extracts
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Modification of feed consumption patterns in beef cattle rations
The present invention relates to feed compositions that can modify the feeding behavior of animals. Supplements can be added to no or low roughage rations that improve the performance of animals. In particular, the addition of calcium chloride to a low or no roughage ration can increase the number of feedings but decrease the amount of feeding per meal. This can result in promoting enhances feed conversion and better cost of feed to weight gain.
The present invention includes extruded livestock feed particles comprising a high level of fat and methods of making these animal feed particles. The particles are palatable and digestible by the livestock animals and lead to an enhanced energy intake by the animals. The particles are also flowable. The method includes the use of a vacuum coater to incorporate the fat into extruded animal feed particles. The present invention also includes methods of feeding dairy cows.
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Medical diagnostic test strips for collecting and analyzing microbiomic data; medical diagnostic test media in the form of swabs, and collection tubes for measuring microbiomic data; animal feed supplements Providing a website featuring non-downloadable software for collecting, analyzing, reporting and tracking data and information in the field of microbiomics for agricultural animals and for providing health and wellness evaluations and recommendations based on microbiomics for agricultural animals Wellness and health-related consulting services; Providing animal feeding and nutritional information to others; Providing animal producers and owners with information and assistance to develop custom feeding programs
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25.
ISOFLAVONE-SUPPLEMENTED MILK REPLACERS AND SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF FEEDING SAME TO YOUNG ANIMALS
Isoflavone-supplemented milk replacers fed to young animals during a pre-weaning provides isoflavones in the milk replacer at a level of about 700 mg per kilogram of the milk replacer, and/or provides about 450 mg of the supplemental isoflavone in at least about 1.5 pounds of the milk replacer by dry weight such that the animal ingests this amount of the isoflavone per day, and/or provides in the milk replacer at least about 50 mg of isoflavone per pound of the animal’s birth weight is ingested per day. In response to ingesting the isoflavone-supplemented milk replacer, the young animal experiences improved performance.
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PRODUCTS AND METHODS FOR INHIBITING RESPIRATORY CONDITIONS
The present disclosure describes products formulated to inhibit respiratory conditions and symptoms in animals, along with associated methods of providing such products to the animals. Feeding methods involve providing animals with a feed product that includes a direct-fed microbial composition, at least one phytogenic compound, and/or at least one vitamin. The direct-fed microbial composition includes one or more strains of Bacillus. The animals can include swine or cattle at risk of developing, or already afflicted with, a respiratory condition. Inhibition of respiratory stress can reduce mortality rates and medication administration relative to animals fed the same diet but lacking the feed product.
The present disclosure describes products formulated to inhibit respiratory conditions and symptoms in animals, along with associated methods of providing such products to the animals. Feeding methods involve providing animals with a feed product that includes a direct-fed microbial composition, at least one phytogenic compound, and/or at least one vitamin. The direct- fed microbial composition includes one or more strains of Bacillus. The animals can include swine or cattle at risk of developing, or already afflicted with, a respiratory condition. Inhibition of respiratory stress can reduce mortality rates and medication administration relative to animals fed the same diet but lacking the feed product.
Cryptosporidium oocysts shed by an infected animal. Some methods include feeding the hydrogen peroxide-generating compositions to animals ultimately afflicted with cryptosporidiosis, and the animals gain weight despite the infection.
Cryptosporidium parvumCryptosporidiumCryptosporidiumCryptosporidium oocysts shed by an infected animal. Some methods include feeding the hydrogen peroxide-generating compositions to animals ultimately afflicted with cryptosporidiosis, and the animals gain weight despite the infection.
A23K 50/15 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for ruminants containing substances which are metabolically converted to proteins, e.g. ammonium salts or urea
A23K 50/10 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for ruminants
Milk replacers include milk and non-milk proteins, and at least a portion of the non-milk protein is provided by textured soy protein. The textured soy protein is ground and extruded such that it is substantially free of anti-nutritional factors that are detrimental to young animal health or development. The milk replacers with textured soy proteins are fed to young animals, who demonstrate equal or improved performance compared to young animals fed milk replacers with the same amount of total protein and same amount of soy protein, but the soy protein is from other than textured soy protein.
A23K 20/147 - Polymeric derivatives, e.g. peptides or proteins
A23K 10/30 - Animal feeding-stuffs from material of fungal origin, e.g. mushrooms
A23K 50/60 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for weanlings
A23K 50/10 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for ruminants
A23C 11/10 - Milk substitutes, e.g. coffee whitener compositions containing at least one non-milk component as source of fats or proteins containing or not lactose but no other milk components as source of fats, carbohydrates or proteins
A61K 38/16 - Peptides having more than 20 amino acids; Gastrins; Somatostatins; Melanotropins; Derivatives thereof
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MANUFACTURE AND USE OF A STARCH-BASED SUBSTITUTE FIBER MATERIAL
Substitute fiber materials include at least one starch, at least one acid, and at least one plasticizer. The starch may be ground whole grain, the acid may be citric acid, and the plasticizer may be glycerin. The substitute materials are biodegradable and compostable. Methods involve feeding animals the substitute fiber materials as a substitute for or a supplement to natural fiber. The substitute fiber materials are at least partially digested in the animal.
The present invention relates to feed compositions that can modify the feeding behavior of animals. Supplements can be added to no or low roughage rations that improve the performance of animals. In particular, the addition of calcium chloride to a low or no roughage ration can increase the number of feedings but decrease the amount of feeding per meal. This can result in promoting enhances feed conversion and better cost of feed to weight gain.
Methods form high fat feed blocks having a total fat content of about 7 wt % to 33 wt %. The blocks are formed by blending a pourable composition having a viscosity of at least 1000 cP at 57° C. with high fat pellets having total fat content of at least 40 wt % based on pellet weight, where the pellets include at least one fat having a melt temperature of greater than 60° C. Also disclosed are feed blocks formed by the methods.
The present disclosure describes animal feed products formulated to inhibit focal ulcerative dermatitis, and methods of feeding such products to the animals. Feeding methods involve providing poultry with a feed product that includes a base feed and a direct-fed microbial composition. The direct-fed microbial composition includes one or more strains of Bacillus pumilus. The poultry can include cage-free layer hens at risk of developing, or already diagnosed with, focal ulcerative dermatitis. Inhibition of focal ulcerative dermatitis can increase the egg production of the layer hens relative to layer hens fed the same base feed but lacking the direct-fed microbial composition.
A01N 37/18 - Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing organic compounds containing a carbon atom having three bonds to hetero atoms with at the most two bonds to halogen, e.g. carboxylic acids containing the group —CO—N, e.g. carboxylic acid amides or imides; Thio-analogues thereof
A01N 63/00 - Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing microorganisms, viruses, microbial fungi, animals or substances produced by, or obtained from, microorganisms, viruses, microbial fungi or animals, e.g. enzymes or fermen
C05F 11/08 - Organic fertilisers containing added bacterial cultures, mycelia or the like
46.
FEED COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INHIBITING FOCAL ULCERATIVE DERMATITIS
Bacillus pumilusBacillus pumilus. The poultry can include cage-free layer hens at risk of developing, or already diagnosed with, focal ulcerative dermatitis. Inhibition of focal ulcerative dermatitis can increase the egg production of the layer hens relative to layer hens fed the same base feed but lacking the direct-fed microbial composition.
A01N 37/18 - Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing organic compounds containing a carbon atom having three bonds to hetero atoms with at the most two bonds to halogen, e.g. carboxylic acids containing the group —CO—N, e.g. carboxylic acid amides or imides; Thio-analogues thereof
A01N 63/00 - Biocides, pest repellants or attractants, or plant growth regulators containing microorganisms, viruses, microbial fungi, animals or substances produced by, or obtained from, microorganisms, viruses, microbial fungi or animals, e.g. enzymes or fermen
C05F 11/08 - Organic fertilisers containing added bacterial cultures, mycelia or the like
47.
FEED COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR INHIBITING FOCAL ULCERATIVE DERMATITIS
The present disclosure describes animal feed products formulated to inhibit focal ulcerative dermatitis, and methods of feeding such products to the animals. Feeding methods involve providing poultry with a feed product that includes a base feed and a direct-fed microbial composition. The direct-fed microbial composition includes one or more strains of Bacillus pumilus. The poultry can include cage-free layer hens at risk of developing, or already diagnosed with, focal ulcerative dermatitis. Inhibition of focal ulcerative dermatitis can increase the egg production of the layer hens relative to layer hens fed the same base feed but lacking the direct-fed microbial composition.
Methods of feeding young animals involves mixing sensory compounds containing botanicals, essential oils or both with at least one of a milk replacer and/or starter feed and providing the feed to the young animals to reduce feed refusal or intake variation. A method of reducing feed intake variation in a group of young animals includes feeding an effective amount of sensory compounds containing licorice root in at least one of a milk replacer or a starter feed to reduce feed intake variation compared to a group of young animals fed the same diet but without the sensory compounds. Reducing feed refusal in a young livestock animal may also include feeding an effective amount of sensory compounds in one or more of a milk replacer and a starter feed such that the young animal reduces feed refusal compared to a young animal fed the same diet but without the sensory compounds.
Methods of feeding ruminants involve positioning the feed blocks in a pasture accessible to the ruminants. The feed block may have a total fat content of about 7 wt % to 33 wt % and an intake modifier to control intake of the feed blocks. High fat pellets having a high total fat content provide at least a portion of the fat in the high fat feed blocks. The methods control a rate of ingestion of high fat feed blocks by ruminants while not negatively affecting performance, and in some instances, ingestion of the blocks results in improved performance.
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Systems and methods provide sugar alcohol to heat stressed ruminants to improve performance. During periods of high temperature or humidity, heat stressed ruminants may exhibit decreased dry matter intake, and in response, an effective amount of sugar alcohol such as sorbitol may be provided in the ruminant diet to cause performance to increase, which may include increased milk yield, improved feed efficiency or both compared to heat stressed dairy cattle without sugar alcohol in the diet.
Low moisture feed blocks deliver supplemental nutrients to animals and are free or substantially free of molasses by using concentrated separator by-product as a molasses replacement. A premixture of concentrated separator by-product and added sugar may be pH-adjusted and concentrated to a high solids content. The premixture may be combined with dry components to form an admixture that is poured into a vessel and allowed to naturally cool and harden into the supplemental feed block.
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METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FEEDING AN ANIMAL A CONSUMABLE FEED PRODUCT AND VEGETATION FROM A CONTAINER
Consumable feed products and vegetation are delivered to animals using a single container in which the container holds the feed product and is used to deliver the feed and which includes ungerminated seeds embedded in the container body. The seeds are caused to germinate and produce vegetation from the container body, and the germinated seeds and/or vegetation is fed to the animal. Multiple containers may be used simultaneously so that while the consumable feed product from one container is used to feed an animal, another container may be used to grow vegetation or deliver vegetation to the animal. Confined birds such as poultry and chicks may benefit from ingesting feed and vegetation produced from such containers.
Methods of feeding livestock animals involve feeding the livestock animals a milk replacer comprising percarbonate. The milk replacer has a pH of about 5.8 and the concentration of percarbonate is effective to reduce bacterial growth within the milk replacer product. The milk replacer can also include at least one added organic acid.
A method of feeding a non-livestock ruminant animal a feed composition including a phytogenic composition for improving performance during periods of heat stress involves determining the non-livestock ruminant animal is experiencing heat stress during a period of heat stress conditions, and feeding the heat stressed non-livestock ruminant animal the feed composition including an amount of the phytogenic composition that is effective to improve performance. A method of feeding a non-livestock ruminant animal a feed composition including a phytogenic composition for improving performance in anticipation of periods of heat stress involves determining a potential for heat stress is increased based on one or more of historical weather patterns or short-term forecasts, and feeding the non-livestock ruminant animal the feed composition including the phytogenic composition based on the determined potential for heat stress.
A weatherized mineral mixture is produced by heating a digestible fat or fatty acid and spraying a mineral mixture with the heated digestible fatty acid to form a protective layer over the mineral mixture. The weatherized mineral mixture may be free of salts of fatty acids, namely soaps. The weatherized mineral mixture sheds water and is wind-resistant. Upon ingestion by livestock animals, the protective coating is digested and the minerals within the mineral mixture are absorbed by the livestock animal.
Methods of producing a bag for a feed product involve providing a multi-layered substrate, which includes one or more polymers. The method also involves extruding a polymer film onto a surface of the substrate to form an elongated sheet. The polymer film can include a mold inhibitor. The method further involves slicing the elongated sheet into smaller, individual sheets and joining pairs of the individual sheets together along a periphery thereof to form the bag configured to receive the feed product. The polymer film can line the inner surface of the finished bag.
B65D 81/28 - Applications of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants
B65D 30/08 - Sacks, bags or like containers characterised by the material used with laminated or multiple walls in spaced face-to-face relationship, e.g. double walls
B65D 65/42 - Applications of coated or impregnated materials
B65B 9/00 - Enclosing successive articles, or quantities of material, e.g. liquids or semiliquids, in flat, folded, or tubular webs of flexible sheet material; Subdividing filled flexible tubes to form packages
A23K 40/25 - Shaping or working-up of animal feeding-stuffs by extrusion
A23K 40/20 - Shaping or working-up of animal feeding-stuffs by moulding, e.g. making cakes or briquettes
B32B 37/15 - Methods or apparatus for laminating, e.g. by curing or by ultrasonic bonding characterised by the properties of the layers with at least one layer being manufactured and immediately laminated before reaching its stable state, e.g. in which a layer is extruded and laminated while in semi-molten state
B32B 38/00 - Ancillary operations in connection with laminating processes
B32B 5/02 - Layered products characterised by the non-homogeneity or physical structure of a layer characterised by structural features of a layer comprising fibres or filaments
B32B 27/12 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin next to a fibrous or filamentary layer
B32B 27/08 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin as the main or only constituent of a layer next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin of a different kind
Methods of producing a bag for a feed product involve providing a multi-layered substrate, which includes one or more polymers. The method also involves extruding a polymer film onto a surface of the substrate to form an elongated sheet. The polymer film can include a mold inhibitor. The method further involves slicing the elongated sheet into smaller, individual sheets and joining pairs of the individual sheets together along a periphery thereof to form the bag configured to receive the feed product. The polymer film can line the inner surface of the finished bag.
B32B 7/02 - Physical, chemical or physicochemical properties
B32B 27/20 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin characterised by the use of special additives using fillers, pigments, thixotroping agents
B32B 37/02 - Methods or apparatus for laminating, e.g. by curing or by ultrasonic bonding characterised by a sequence of laminating steps, e.g. by adding new layers at consecutive laminating stations
B65D 33/00 - CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES - Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
Methods of producing a bag for a feed product involve providing a multi- layered substrate, which includes one or more polymers. The method also involves extruding a polymer film onto a surface of the substrate to foun an elongated sheet. The polymer film can include a mold inhibitor. The method further involves slicing the elongated sheet into smaller, individual sheets and joining pairs of the individual sheets together along a periphery thereof to foun the bag configured to receive the feed product. The polymer film can line the inner surface of the finished bag.
B65D 81/24 - Adaptations for preventing deterioration or decay of contents; Applications to the container or packaging material of food preservatives, fungicides, pesticides or animal repellants
B65D 30/04 - Sacks, bags or like containers characterised by the material used made of fabric
B65D 30/08 - Sacks, bags or like containers characterised by the material used with laminated or multiple walls in spaced face-to-face relationship, e.g. double walls
Methods involve feeding livestock animals, such as young poultry or calves, a feed product comprising a bacteriophage composition. The bacteriophage composition is configured to preserve the feed product and may exhibit lytic activity specific to one or more species of pathogenic bacteria, such as Salmonella, Escherichia, Campylobacter and/or Clostridium, which may be contaminating the feed product. The bacteriophage composition can remain in an inactive form until ingested by the animals, for example by including a protective outer coating, which may be comprised of digestible fat.
EscherichiaCampylobacterClostridiumClostridium, which may be contaminating the feed product. The bacteriophage composition can remain in an inactive form until ingested by the animals, for example by including a protective outer coating, which may be comprised of digestible fat.
Methods involve feeding livestock animals, such as young poultry or calves, a feed product comprising a bacteriophage composition. The bacteriophage composition is configured to preserve the feed product and may exhibit lytic activity specific to one or more species of pathogenic bacteria, such as Salmonella, Escherichia, Campylobacter and/or Clostridium, which may be contaminating the feed product. The bacteriophage composition can remain in an inactive form until ingested by the animals, for example by including a protective outer coating, which may be comprised of digestible fat.
A weatherized mineral mixture is produced by heating a digestible fat or fatty acid and spraying a mineral mixture with the heated digestible fatty acid to form a protective layer over the mineral mixture. The weatherized mineral mixture may be free of salts of fatty acids, namely soaps. The weatherized mineral mixture sheds water and is wind-resistant. Upon ingestion by livestock animals, the protective coating is digested and the minerals within the mineral mixture are absorbed by the livestock animal.
Milk replacers include milk and non-milk proteins, and at least a portion of the non-milk protein is provided by textured soy protein. The textured soy protein is ground and extruded such that it is substantially free of anti-nutritional factors that are detrimental to young animal health or development. The milk replacers with textured soy proteins are fed to young animals, who demonstrate equal or improved performance compared to young animals fed milk replacers with the same amount of total protein and same amount of soy protein, but the soy protein is from other than textured soy protein.
A23K 20/147 - Polymeric derivatives, e.g. peptides or proteins
A23K 50/10 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for ruminants
A23C 11/06 - Milk substitutes, e.g. coffee whitener compositions containing at least one non-milk component as source of fats or proteins containing non-milk proteins
74.
Animal feed blocks and methods and systems for their production
Low moisture feed blocks deliver supplemental nutrients to animals and are free or substantially free of molasses by using concentrated separator by-product as a molasses replacement. A premixture of concentrated separator by-product and added sugar may be pH-adjusted and concentrated to a high solids content. The premixture may be combined with dry components to form an admixture that is poured into a vessel and allowed to naturally cool and harden into the supplemental feed block.
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Animal feed supplements, namely, animal feed supplements for agricultural animals being cattle, goat, lamb and pig, the aforementioned specifically excluding cats and dogs
Methods of feeding ruminants involve positioning the feed blocks in a pasture accessible to the ruminants. The feed block may have a total fat content of about 7 wt % to 33 wt % and an intake modifier to control intake of the feed blocks. High fat pellets having a high total fat content provide at least a portion of the fat in the high fat feed blocks. The methods control a rate of ingestion of high fat feed blocks by ruminants while not negatively affecting performance, and in some instances, ingestion of the blocks results in improved performance.
Methods form high fat feed blocks having a total fat content of about 7 wt % to 33 wt %. The blocks are formed by blending a pourable composition having a viscosity of at least 1000 cP at 57° C. with high fat pellets having total fat content of at least 40 wt % based on pellet weight, where the pellets include at least one fat having a melt temperature of greater than 60° C. Also disclosed are feed blocks formed by the methods.
Systems and methods provide sugar alcohol to heat stressed ruminants to improve performance. During periods of high temperature or humidity, heat stressed ruminants may exhibit decreased dry matter intake, and in response, an effective amount of sugar alcohol such as sorbitol may be provided in the ruminant diet to cause performance to increase, which may include increased milk yield, improved feed efficiency or both compared to heat stressed dairy cattle without sugar alcohol in the diet.
Methods of covering an animal feed product involve depositing in an open end of a container an animal feed. Placing a cover on an exposed surface of the feed at the open end of the container, where the cover includes a flowable coating arranged on one side of a flexible film and a rigid or semi-rigid layer bound to an opposite side of the film. The exposed surface of the feed comprises irregular surface structures due to feed components positioned at the exposed surface. A central portion of the flexible film of the placed cover conforms to the irregular surface structures at the exposed surface of the feed upon the flowable coating reaching a temperature of at least about 125° F.
B65B 25/00 - Packaging other articles presenting special problems
B32B 3/28 - Layered products essentially comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar form; Layered products essentially having particular features of form characterised by a layer with cavities or internal voids characterised by a layer comprising a deformed thin sheet, e.g. corrugated, crumpled
B32B 3/26 - Layered products essentially comprising a layer with external or internal discontinuities or unevennesses, or a layer of non-planar form; Layered products essentially having particular features of form characterised by a layer with cavities or internal voids
B32B 1/00 - Layered products essentially having a general shape other than plane
B32B 29/00 - Layered products essentially comprising paper or cardboard
B32B 27/10 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin as the main or only constituent of a layer next to another layer of a specific substance of paper or cardboard
B32B 27/08 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin as the main or only constituent of a layer next to another layer of a specific substance of synthetic resin of a different kind
B32B 27/06 - Layered products essentially comprising synthetic resin as the main or only constituent of a layer next to another layer of a specific substance
B32B 7/12 - Interconnection of layers using interposed adhesives or interposed materials with bonding properties
B32B 7/02 - Physical, chemical or physicochemical properties
A23P 10/00 - Shaping or working of foodstuffs characterised by the products
A23K 40/30 - Shaping or working-up of animal feeding-stuffs by coating
B65D 85/72 - Containers, packaging elements or packages, specially adapted for particular articles or materials for edible or potable liquids, semiliquids, or plastic or pasty materials
Methods of feeding livestock animals involve feeding the livestock animals a milk replacer comprising percarbonate. The milk replacer has a pH of about 5.8 and the concentration of percarbonate is effective to reduce bacterial growth within the milk replacer product. The milk replacer can also include at least one added organic acid.
Methods of feeding livestock animals involve feeding the livestock animals a milk replacer comprising percarbonate. The milk replacer has a pH of about 5.8 and the concentration of percarbonate is effective to reduce bacterial growth within the milk replacer product. The milk replacer can also include at least one added organic acid.
Methods of feeding livestock animals involve feeding the livestock animals a milk replacer comprising percarbonate. The milk replacer has a pH of about 5.8 and the concentration of percarbonate is effective to reduce bacterial growth within the milk replacer product. The milk replacer can also include at least one added organic acid.
The present invention includes methods for producing an extruded food particle by extruding through an extruder having a screw within a barrel, a composition containing nutritional food components, and gelatin in an amount sufficient to act as a binder when the composition exits the extruder, where the binder has essentially no starch. The present invention also includes extruded food particles that do not use starch as a binder.
The present disclosure describes animal feed products formulated to improve animal performance, and methods of feeding such products to the animals. Feeding methods involve providing young livestock animals with a milk replacer that includes a direct-fed microbial composition. Feeding the young livestock animals according to this approach may improve animal performance, which may include improvements in total weight gain, feed efficiency and/or starter feed intake. The direct-fed microbial composition may include Bacillus subtilis PB6, about 4.3×109 to about 12.9×109 CFUs of which may be provided daily on a per-animal basis.
The present invention relates to feed compositions that can modify the feeding behavior of animals. Supplements can be added to no or low roughage rations that improve the performance of animals. In particular, the addition of calcium chloride to a low or no roughage ration can increase the number of feedings but decrease the amount of feeding per meal. This can result in promoting enhances feed conversion and better cost of feed to weight gain.
Animal feed blocks composed of feed pellets are formed by conditioning a meal of a particulated animal feed mixture through heating the meal using steam to cause at least one of the feed components in the feed mixture to bind the meal. The heated meal is mechanically forced through a die to compress the meal into heated pellets. The heated pellets are collected in a pre-formed mold and are compressed in their heated state resulting in the pellets combining to form the animal feed block in the shape of the mold. Systems may use a pellet mill and a hydraulic press where conditioning and pellet formation takes place in the pellet mill and formation of the animal feed block is through compressing a collection of heated pellets using the hydraulic press.
A23K 40/20 - Shaping or working-up of animal feeding-stuffs by moulding, e.g. making cakes or briquettes
B30B 11/00 - Presses specially adapted for forming shaped articles from material in particulate or plastic state, e.g. briquetting presses or tabletting presses
A23K 50/75 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for birds for poultry
A23K 50/20 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for horses
A23K 50/30 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for swine
A23K 50/50 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for rodents
A23K 40/25 - Shaping or working-up of animal feeding-stuffs by extrusion
A23K 50/60 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for weanlings
A23K 50/10 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for ruminants
A23K 50/70 - Feeding-stuffs specially adapted for particular animals for birds
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Systems and methods for feeding sugar alcohol to ruminants during periods of heat stress
Systems and methods provide sugar alcohol to heat stressed ruminants to improve performance. During periods of high temperature or humidity, heat stressed ruminants may exhibit decreased dry matter intake, and in response, an effective amount of sugar alcohol such as sorbitol may be provided in the ruminant diet to cause performance to increase, which may include increased milk yield, improved feed efficiency or both compared to heat stressed dairy cattle without sugar alcohol in the diet.
