Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Treatment of live animal
Patent
1991-08-05
1992-12-08
Penland, R. B.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Treatment of live animal
426 69, 426623, 426630, 426656, 426658, 426807, A23K 122
Patent
active
051696568
ABSTRACT:
Ruminant animals, as herbivores, survive and produce while feeding chiefly on grass or other roughage consisting of large amounts of cellulose. Ruminants which have been consuming primarily diets high in cellulose must gradually be adjusted to high grain rations. When the attempt is made to adapt and feed ruminants diets containing no roughage, metabolic problems surface. The increase in lactic acid and accompanying fall in rumen .sub.p H resulting from roughage or cellulose withdrawal leads not only to the destruction of cellulolytic bacteria which digest cellulose), but to the destruction of lactate utilizing organisms, resulting in acidosis and its attendant adverse effects, which results in less than optimal cattle performance. Herein roughage can be eliminated allowing ruminants to consume an all grain, properly balanced due without these adverse reactions. A roughage free diet for ruminants is provided which alters the eating behavior of cattle. The die incorporates ingredients which modify feed consumption patterns of cattle consuming a roughage free diet.
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Hodge Dean E.
Jackson, Jr. Ted C.
Williams Danny L.
Penland R. B.
Purina Mills, Inc.
Renner Edward H.
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