44292 results about "Fodder" patented technology

A highly automated method and system for providing individual animal electronic identification, measurement and value based management of cattle in a large cattle feedlot. Through the use of (1) a computer system integrated with (2) automatic individual animal identification (3) multiple measurement and remeasurement systems with automatic data input and (4) a cattle handling and sorting system, animals are individually (a) identified and (b) measured by weight, external dimensions and characteristics of internal body tissue. With this information together with animal physiological characteristics and historical data, the computer system calculates the optimum (c) slaughter weight, (d) economic end point and (e) marketing date for shipment to a packing plant. After measurement, individual animals are (f) sorted by direction of the computer in response to calculations from the measurements. The computer system also calculates from individual animal data and other data (g) each animal's pro rata share of total feed intake for the animal's feed group. The computer system (h) stores individual animal measurement, performance and location data, which is used by management to (i) select animals for shipment from the feedlot for slaughter at the optimum time. Following an animal's shipment to a slaughter facility, its identification in the computer system is used to (j) correlate the live animal physical characteristics and performance data to the measured and evaluated carcass characteristics data obtained during the slaughter process and (k) build a data base to more accurately identify and measure value-based characteristics in subsequent animals produced and fed for more effective value-based selection and management of those animals.

The present invention relates to a device and method for the milking of dairy animals (9), comprising individual identifiers (11) attachable to each individual diary animal (9); simple feeding station (3'-3''''), provided with food dispenser (4) for dispensing fodder and sensor (15) for sensing the individual identifiers (11); combined feeding and milking stations (5', 5''), provided with food dispensers (6) for dispensing fodder, milking apparatus (7) for milking animals (9) and sensors (15) for sensing the individual identifiers (11); and control device (8, 19) for controlling the simple feeding stations (3', 3'''') and combined feeding and milking stations (5', 5''), wherein the control device (8, 19) comprises determining apparatus (19) for determining a time for the next milking of said individual animal (9); and output apparatus (21) for commanding the single feeding stations (3',3'''') to stop dispensing food to the individual animal (9) if the actual time is after the time for the next milking of the animal (9).

A process for the heterotrophic or predominantly heterotrophic production of whole-celled or extracted microbial products with a high concentration of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids, producible in an aerobic culture under controlled conditions using biologically pure cultures of heterotrophic single-celled fungi microorganisms of the order Thraustochytriales. The harvested whole-cell microbial product can be added to processed foods as a nutritional supplement, or to fish and animal feeds to enhance the omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acid content of products produced from these animals. The lipids containing these fatty acids can also be extracted and used in nutritional, pharmaceutical and industrial applications.

The invention relates to a compound feed for lactating sows and a preparation method thereof. The invention discloses an complete compound feed for the lactating sows, comprising the following components: corns, bean pulp, imported fish meal, fermented cottonseed meal, imported dried porcine solules, alfalfa meal, rice bran, wheat bran, oil, calcium hydrophosphate, mountain meal, edible salt, compound microbial ecological agents like yeast and the like, choline chloride, a food calling agent, an acidulant, an amino acid additive, compound vitamins, organic compound trace elements and an auxiliary functional packet. The feed fully completely meets the nutrition requirements for postpartum lactation and postweaning estrus of the sows and can ensure that the sows provide more milk with high quality during lactation so that suckling pigs grow at high speed and has good weaning weight and small weaning stress; and the sows have less postpartum diseases, timely rut for hybridization after weaning, the non-breeding days of the sows are shortened, and the annual live piglet number and the utilization age limit of the sows and the like are increased.

A hydrotreating method uses two catalyst beds with the introduction, on the last catalyst bed, of oils of animal or vegetable origin for co-treating a mixture made up of oils of vegetable or animal origin and of petroleum cuts (gas oil cuts (GO) and middle distillates) in order to produce gas oil effluents meeting specifications with an improved cetane number. The first catalyst bed is dedicated to only the deep desulfurization reactions (HDS1) of a petroleum type feed. The effluents of the first catalyst bed having an effluent sulfur content below or equal to 50 mg / kg are separated into two streams. The first stream, which is predominant, is sent to the gas oil pool. The second stream is mixed with oils of vegetable or animal origin. The resultant oil-petroleum cut mixture is then subjected to a milder hydrotreatment (HDT2). The effluents obtained at the outlet of the second catalyst bed can optionally be mixed with the predominant stream from the first bed. The process economy, the tolerance to the specifications relative to oils of animal or vegetable origin and the quality of the products obtained are thus greatly improved.

The invention relates to a process for the granulation of an animal feedstuffs additive comprising amino acids or vitamins in a circulating fluidized bed, wherein the additive is preferably a fermentation product and optionally comprises further constituents from the fermentation broth.

The invention provides a micro-ecological traditional Chinese medicine preparation for enhancing the immunity of livestock and poultry, and a preparation method thereof. The invention is characterized in that traditional Chinese medicines are combined with the modern microbial fermentation technology to develop a novel feed additive, i.e. traditional Chinese medicines such as astragalus root, eucommia, licorice, bupleurum and the like are directly fermented by two or more of sporeformer, microzyme, lactobacillus to obtain the product. The micro-ecological traditional Chinese medicine preparation provided by the invention has the efficacies of enhancing the body immunity of livestock and poultry, maintaining the gastrointestinal microbial flora balance of animals, preventing and treating alimentary and respiratory diseases of livestock and poultry, promoting healthy and quick growth of the animals, and improving the qualities of meat, egg and milk; the micro-ecological traditional Chinese medicine preparation has no toxic side effect, no pollution and no residue, can not generate drug resistance, and is suitable for use at each growth stage of the livestock and poultry; and the effect is stable and reliable and can meet the requirements of people for safety in production of livestock and poultry products. The micro-ecological traditional Chinese medicine preparation for enhancing the immunity of livestock and poultry can be increased in dose to be used as a veterinary medicine for application.

A process for coating a polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA)-containing carrier particle or a PUFA matrix particle, or a liquid pharmaceutical-containing carrier particle or a liquid pharmaceutical matrix particle. Also disclosed are such particles made by the process of the invention and foods, pharmaceuticals, beverages, nutritional supplements, infant formula, pet food and animal feed with incorporate such particles.

The invention discloses a compound microbial culture starter and application thereof, which belong to an application of a beneficial microbial preparation at low cost. The active microorganism of the compound microbial culture starter comprises saccharmyces cerevisiae, bacillus subtilis, bacillus natto and lactococcus lactis. The compound microbial culture starter can be used for livestock and poultry raising beds, feeds addictive and other aspects and is characterized by reducing the cost input of users on the culture starter and having stable effect.

The invention discloses a healthy efficient pig raising method. The healthy efficient pig raising method includes steps of 1) selecting a pigsty and a site; 2) feeding reserved sows and boars; 3) feeding pregnant sows; 4) feeding milking sows; 5) feeding nonpregnant sows; 6) managing the pigsty of the sows and managing temperature and humidity; 7) feeding piglets; 8) feeding in care period; 9) feeding in growing period, and 10) feeding in fattening period and specially preparing fodder for the pregnant sows, breast-feeding fodder, milk replacers, care fodder and fodder for medium and large pigs in different stages. By the healthy efficient pig raising method, annual survival piglet number of the sows can be increased, and simultaneously, daily ration can be sufficiently converted by complex phosphoesterasum, and feed conversion rate of pigs is increased. By adopting feed formula without antibiotics and additives containing copper, phosphorous and zinc in high dose, the pigs are healthier.

The invention relates to biological compositions comprising yeast cells that can improve the immune functions of swines. The invention also relates to methods for manufacturing the biological compositions, and methods of using the biological compositions as swine feed additives.

The present invention relates to a feed additive for animals comprising tea extract, to a feed additive for animals of which active ingredient is tea leaf fiber, and to an animal feed comprising the feed additive for animals. The tea extract in the present invention exerts great effects in preventing and treating noninfectious and infectious diarrhea in domestic animals, poultry, and pet animals, improving milk quality of fresh milk, increasing milk yield, and improving reproductive efficiency. Also, the tea leaf fiber of the present invention improves intestinal function in domestic animals, decreases the occurrence of diarrhea, increases milk yield, improves feed efficiency and removes malodor of feces and urine.

An additive for fowl's feed is prepared from more Chinese-medicinal materials, and can serve to improve immunity, promote appetite and absorption, and relieve inflammation. Its advantages are high effect and low cost.

A biologic deodoring and cleaning agent for treating the refuse to prepare fertilizer and cleaning and activating water area contains high-safety yeast, lactobacillus, nitrogen-fixing bacteria, functional bacillus, and photosynthetic bacteria.

The present invention provides compositions and methods designed to increase value output of a fermentation reaction. In particular, the present invention provides a business method of increasing value output of a fermentation plant. The present invention also provides a modified fermentation residual of higher commercial value. Also provided in the present invention are complete animal feeds, nutritional supplements comprising the subject ferment residuals. Further provided by the present invention is a method of performing fermentation, a modified fermentative microorganism and a genetic vehicle for modifying such microorganism.

A process for the treatment of biomass to render structural carbohydrates more accessible and / or digestible using concentrated ammonium hydroxide with or without anhydrous ammonia addition, is described. The process preferably uses steam to strip ammonia from the biomass for recycling. The process yields of monosaccharides from the structural carbohydrates are good, particularly as measured by the enzymatic hydrolysis of the structural carbohydrates. The monosaccharides are used as animal feeds and energy sources for ethanol production.

The present invention describes a process for at least a 90% conversion of a plant biomass preferably by a reduction of the units of cellulase needed and by using a xylanase which acts synergistically with the cellulase to improve the yield of xylose and glucose as sugars. The process enables greater conversion of a lignocellulosic plant biomass to glucose and xylose for use as animal feeds and as fermentation as medium for producing ethanol.

A method for the production of ethanol and a modified animal feed is provided. The method replaces the starch in known corn-based animal feed with biomass fiber treated to make it more digestible by animals. The process includes wherein the pericarp and germ are removed from the corn kernel and processed for by-products. The starch and protein are also removed and separated. The starch is then fermented and distilled to ethanol and stillage. The bioavailable modified animal feed comprises the pericarp and germ removed from corn kernels and optionally by-products of the pericarp and germ processing, and lignocellulosic materials. The modified animal feed may optionally include energy materials such as animal and vegetable fats, vegetable soapstocks, or glycerin, and combinations thereof.

The invention relates to an animal feed composite microecologic agent. The invention is formed by mixing composite microorganism powders, oligose, an auxiliary protective vector and a flavor composition, and comprises the total mass percents of1.0-30% of the composite microorganism powders, 5.0-35% of the oligose, 35-70% of the auxiliary protective vector and 0.1-0.2% of vanillic aldehyde, wherein, the composite microorganism powders select one or the combination of more than one of lactobacillus, yeast, bacillus and lactococcus; the oligose selects one or the combination of more than one of oligoisomaltose, soybean oligosaccharides and inulin; the auxiliary protective vector selects one or the combination of more than one of cornstarch, corncob, rapeseed cake powders and maltodextrin. The invention has the advantage that: live bacteria and oligose contained in the invention have the effect for prominently improving microecologic environment of entire intestines and aiding in digestion, and the invention has a plurality of advantages of preventing and treating intestinal diseases, enhancing the utilization rate of digestion of feed, promoting animal to grow fast and eradicating antibiotic additives.

The invention discloses a method for processing inapplicable tobacco leaves by musca domestica larvae to prepare a biological protein feed, and belongs to the technical field of environmental protection. The method for processing the inapplicable tobacco leaves by the musca domestica larvae to prepare the biological protein feed comprises the steps of: crushing fresh inapplicable tobacco leaves until the grain size of the crushed leaves is 1-5mm; adding bran, mixture of rice chaff and husk, feather meal and spray-dried animal blood cells to prepare compost; and inoculating housefly eggs at the surface of the compost, cultivating the housefly eggs for 5 days at 25-35 DEG C, collecting the compost containing the musca domestica larvae, drying and preparing the biological protein feed. The method disclosed by the invention is strong in handling capacity, small in floor area, and low in energy consumption in the processing process, achieves the resource utilization of the inapplicable tobacco leaves, changes waste into precious resources, improves the environmental health, simultaneously produces the biologic protein feed, and has a good application prospect.

Animal waste such as fecal material from swine, chicken, turkey, and cattle is converted into useful forms such as fertilizer, other types of soil builders, and even nutrient feed additives. Devices, systems, and methods are provided that allow economical conversion and in many instances, alleviate the production and release of undesirable gases such as sulfide and ammonia. In one embodiment, undesirable anaerobic and facultative anaerobic bacteria are killed at a greater rate than desirable soil compatible aerobic bacteria. The use of low temperature killing diminishes off gassing commonly associated with other techniques, and the use of gas trapping additives such as zeolites provides enhanced soil building qualities such as slow release of nitrogen and slow release of moisture to soil. The methods allow convenient adjustment of composition, allowing conversion of waste into tailored designer fertilizer suited for particular soils. Other embodiments provide other soil building qualities as well as nutrient qualities for feedstock used in animal husbandry such as aquaculture.

The use of macroalgal, microalgal, and fungally-derived materials provide, in combination with higher-plant derived materials, complete feeds for animal husbandry. The products and methods of the invention provide nutritional feed formulations, that reduce or eliminate the need for animal-derived materials. The feeds are useful for terrestrial or aquatic animals, and comprise docosahexaenoic acid and eicosapentaenoic acid.

The invention relates to biological compositions comprising yeast cells that can be added to animal feed which upon ingestion by an animal can reduce the odor of manure produced by the animal. The invention also relates to methods for manufacturing the biological compositions, and methods of using the biological compositions as animal feed additives.

The invention provides a cow feedstuff combination, in particular to a functional feedstuff combination to feed high production cow. The invention endows fatty acid with function of rumen passing by adding strong alkali week acid salt fatty acid salt, to act as energy supplement agent for cow; the combination is matched with other protein feedstuff, energy feedstuff, mineral, Vitamin and so on to acquire a fine mixture, which can meet the special requirement of such components as energy, protein, Vitamin and mineral and so on of cow, in particular to high production cow 100 days after delivery, and release the energy balance, improve the body condition, milk quality and anti-stress, and prevent the occurrence of nutrition metabolization diseases.

The invention relates to a micro-ecological preparation and the application thereof, in particular to a micro-ecological preparation containing a variety of probiotics and the application thereof. The micro-ecological preparation contains any three or four of the components including CGMCC No. 2383 bacillus licheniformis powder, bacillus subtilis powder, CGMCC No. 2386 enterococcus faecalis powder, lactobacillus acidophilus powder, and CGMCC No. 2388 saccharomyces cerevisiae. The micro-ecological preparation has content of live bacteria, has the adversity resistance such as gastric acid resistance, bile salt resistance, high-temperature resistance, common antibiotic resistance, and the like and the probiotic functions of producing acid and enzyme and resisting pathogenic bacteria. The variety and the proportion of the probiotics and carrier can be determined according to different kinds of animals and different animal growth phase. The micro-ecological preparation can improve the feed utilization efficiency, increase the yield of meat, eggs and milk, promote the growth of the animal, improve the immunity and the disease resistance of the animal, replace the antibiotic and improve the quality of the animal product.

The subject invention relates to the identification of several genes involved in the elongation of polyunsaturated acids (i.e., "elongases") and to uses thereof. At least two of these genes are also involved in the elongation of monounsaturated fatty acids. In particular, elongase is utilized in the conversion of gamma linolenic acid (GLA) to dihomogamma linolenic acid (DGLA) and in the conversion of AA to adrenic acid (ADA), or eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) to omega3-docosapentaenoic acid (DPA). DGLA may be utilized in the production of polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as arachidonic acid (AA), docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), EPA, adrenic acid, omega6-docosapentaenoic acid or omega3-docosapentaenoic acid which may be added to pharmaceutical compositions, nutritional compositions, animal feeds, as well as other products such as cosmetics.

The invention discloses a low-concentrate type fermented total mixed ration (TMR) for dairy cows and a preparation method thereof. The TMR is prepared by the following steps of: (1) mixing the following materials in part by mass to obtain a mixture: 15 to 20 parts of straw, 4 to 8 parts of fodder grass, 6 to 12 parts of protein feed, 25 to 30 parts of energy feed, 3 to 6 parts of minerals and molasses, 40 to 45 parts of food processing by-products and 0.5 to 1 part of premix compound of trace elements and vitamins; (2) adjusting the moisture content of the mixture of the step (1) to be between 40 and 50 percent; and (3) sealing and fermenting the mixture of the step (2) for more than 14 days to obtain the ration for the dairy cows. The TMR of the invention has the following advantages of: low cost; complete nutrition and homogeneous components to avoid animal picky eaters and significantly improve the production performance of animals; and high aerobic stability. The low-concentrate type fermented total mixed ration for the dairy cows opens up a new technique and an effective way for efficient utilization of the resources of the straw and the food processing by-products, and has important practicability and application promotion values.