Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Treatment of live animal
Patent
1985-04-04
1988-04-19
Penland, R. B.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Treatment of live animal
426630, 426807, A23K 100
Patent
active
047388536
ABSTRACT:
A method of maintaining hens or other domesticated birds for egg production, comprises giving the birds feed supplemented with .gamma.-linolenic acid or one or more higher acids in the n-6 series, in the form of the free acid or as an ester, amide, phospholipid, salt or other physiologically acceptable derivative convertible in the bird's body to, or having the effect of, the free acid.
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Efamol Ltd.
Penland R. B.
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