Food or edible material: processes – compositions – and products – Treatment of live animal
Patent
1976-12-07
1979-02-06
Penland, R. B.
Food or edible material: processes, compositions, and products
Treatment of live animal
426 61, 426623, 426630, 426636, 426807, 424 93, A23K 118
Patent
active
041384989
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed herein is an improved feed additive for administration to ruminants to prevent or minimize lactic acidosis when the ruminant is switched from a diet of roughage to starch (high energy). The additive comprises a bacterial culture of Megasphaera elsdenii admixed with an ingestible animal feed additive. The additive utilizes the unexpected ability of M. elsdenii to ferment lactic acid in preference to simple sugars, thereby minimizing accumulation of lactic acid. The preferred embodiment is the combination of M. elsdenii with substances (including bacterial cultures) producing ruminal propionic acid, thereby providing a high propionic level while avoiding lactic acid accumulation.
REFERENCES:
huber et al., "Lactic Acid Utilizing Bacteria in Ruminal Fluid of a Steer Adapted from Hay Feeding to a High Grain Ration", Am. J. Vet. Res., vol. 37, No. 5, pp. 611-613, May 1976.
Bergey, "Manual of Determinative Bacteriology" Williams & Wilkens Publishing Co., (1974), pp. 425-426.
McDowell, Jr. William W.
Penland R. B.
Pippenger Philip M.
W. R. Grace & Co.
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