1245 results about "Ruminant" patented technology

A method of enhancing milk component production in a ruminant, the method including providing a feed that includes a sugar alcohol and supplying the sugar alcohol to the abomasum of the ruminant.

A method, and systems implementing such method, for reducing methane emissions by ruminants. The method includes providing a feed dispenser for feeding ruminants one or more nutrient supplements, and the feed dispenser includes a gas analyzer proximate to where the ruminant places its head. The method includes determining a particular ruminant has accessed the feed dispenser such as by reading an identifier from an RFID ear tag and operating the feed dispenser to provide a ration of methane-controlling nutrient supplement. The method includes using the gas analyzer to determine levels of carbon dioxide and methane and operating a data analyzing station to determine a ratio of methane to carbon dioxide and modify the type or amount of nutrient supplement for the ruminant for a next feeding to control methane production or achieve an animal production goal, such as by selectively operating a hopper with two or more supplements compartments.

A method and system for reducing methane emissions by ruminants. The method includes providing a feed dispenser for feeding ruminants nutrient supplements, and the feed dispenser includes a gas analyzer where a ruminant places its head. The method includes determining a particular ruminant has accessed the feed dispenser such as by reading an identifier from an RFID ear tag and operating the feed dispenser to provide a ration of methane-controlling nutrient supplement. The method includes using the gas analyzer to determine levels of carbon dioxide and methane and operating a data analyzing station to determine a ratio of methane to carbon dioxide and modify the type or amount of nutrient supplement for the ruminant for a next feeding to control methane production or achieve an animal production goal, such as by operating a hopper with supplement compartments. The unit can be monitored remotely and controlled through an Internet connection.

A ruminant feed additive composition containing (A) lysine magnesium phosphate, (B) magnesium oxide, (C) a binder and (D) water, said water content being between 5 and 15% by weight, and processes for producing the composition.

The present invention provides a bolus for introducing into a ruminant animal's reticulum, comprising at least one pressure sensor (e.g. acoustic sensor and pressure transducer) configured and operable for receiving an overall pressure signal emanated by two or more signal sources in its surroundings and outputting a data stream indicative thereof; a processing utility for receiving and processing the data stream indicative of the overall pressure signal to isolate therefrom signal components from two or more defined sources and outputting one or more values indicative of a health condition of the animal; and a communication utility for receiving said one or more values and transmitting a signal corresponding thereto. The invention also provides a method for monitoring health condition of a ruminant animal and a system therefore, making use of the bolus of the invention.

The present invention relates to the production of a highly digestible, high protein product (high protein distillers dried grains or high protein DDG) from corn endosperm, and more particularly to a method for the recovery of high protein DDG by using: (i) dehulling and degermination to isolate a low fat, low fiber corn endosperm fraction, (ii) enzymatic hydrolysis to solubilize and alcoholic fermentation to assimilate the starch and non-starch carbohydrates present in the corn endosperm, and (iii) filtration and / or centrifugation to recover the dealcoholized insoluble solids that remain after fermentation of the corn endosperm. The present invention provides an alternative to the traditional dry mill method of processing corn to produce ethanol, and results in the production and recovery of a distillers' by-product (high protein DDG) with increased value and range of use as an ingredient in feeds for farm-raised ruminants and non-ruminants and pet foods. The product of the present invention contains less than about 2.0 weight percent starch, from about 55.0 to about 65.0 weight percent protein, from about 4.5 to about 7.5 weight percent fat, from about 3.0 to about 5.0 weight percent crude fiber, and from about 78.0 to about 90.0 percent total digestible nutrients, and improves the palatability and digestibility of animal feeds and / or pet foods into which it is incorporated, and aids in the management of the health and weight gain of the animal.

This invention provides bovine pregnancy test methods and devices. The test is also suitable for other ruminant and / or ungulate animals. Antigens from Group A (early pregnancy antigens), and / or Group B (mid-pregnancy antigens), and Group C (early, mid- and late pregnancy antigens) are detected in a fluid from the animal, and pregnancy is reliably determined. The pregnancy assays of this invention are preferably carried out using immunoassay devices which provide immediate results in the field.

A system for monitoring physiological parameters within the stomachs of ruminant animals and including two primary interdependent components. Both components are linked by radio frequency communication and software designed specifically for this application. The first component is a sensing transceiver, battery power and electric components hereafter referred to as the device that is tethered by a cord to a weight in the form of a conventional cow magnet. The second component includes both stationary and portable readers / transmitters capable of initiating radio frequency communication with the device(s) for receiving data from them and sending data to them. Software residing in both components utilizes digitized data and operating commands for transmission between the components, for storing selected data and program commands and manipulating the data for viewing, hearing and related analysis.

A dual-effect microbial feed additive for ruminant is prepared through pulverizing corn, steaming, liquefying, saccharified, inoculating lactobacillus acidophilus and saccharomyce cerevisiae, fermenting to obtain living bacterium preparation, culturing bacillus subtilis, aspergillus oryzae and aspergillus niger in the culture medium prepared from corn, bran and soybean dregs, fermenting to obtain composite enzyme preparation, and proportionally mixing said living bacterium preparation with said composite enzyme preparation. It can promote the growth and health of ruminant and increase the utilization rate of feed.

A method for enhancing feed efficiency and reducing enteric methane production in livestock, comprising a formulation of natural plants and plant extracts and chemicals, including propionatic acid glycerol, that when feed to ruminants results in decreased enteric methane production and improved feed efficiency.

The invention discloses a method for producing a complex micro-ecological preparation with microbial agents and enzyme. According to the action principles and characteristics of every microbial strain, the method adopts scientific combination and adds enzyme preparations and acidifier to enable microorganisms in the product to grow rapidly and take dominance in fermented feed and animal bodies so as to reduce the growth opportunity of miscellaneous bacteria. The preparation comprises the following components: bacillus subtilis, lactobacillus plantarum, candida utilis yeast, lactobacillus acidophilus, protease, amylase, cellulase, xylanase, mannanase, galactosidase, pectinase and citric acid. As all strains of the product adopt liquid deep fermentation culture, the non-polluting property of the product is guaranteed. Liquid microbial agents ensure that the number of bacterial colonies of the product is more than 100 million and the product is free from the pollution of other miscellaneous bacteria, while solid microbial agents ensure that the number of bacterial colonies of the product is more than 1 billion and the proportion of miscellaneous bacteria to effective bacteria is not more than 0.0001. The preparation contains bacillus, lactic acid bacteria and yeast, can apply to the processes of making green-yellow storage feed, fermenting feed, soaking feed, and the like, can be directly added to feed for feeding, and can improve the growth performance of ruminant animals, poultry, pigs, aquatic products and special animals.

The present invention relates to a yard feeding cattle efficient total ration blocky feed and a production method thereof. The yard feeding cattle efficient total ration blocky feed consists of 37 percent to 60 percent of crushed or cut forage grass, 38 percent to 60 percent of yard feeding cattle concentrate complemental feed and 2 percent to 3 percent of bentonite which are mixed in a mixer, the water content of a product is controlled within 14 percent, and finally, the prepared raw material is pressed and molded in a ring die waferer. The present invention leads total mixed ration (TMR) to be blocks, compared with the TMR in bulk, the present invention has the advantages that the present invention has stable feed quality, reduces the forage grass waste in the process of feeding and the labor intensity, improves the labor ration and can be fit for large scale industrialized production; the present invention improves the grain ration palatability obviously, effectively prevents the flocks and herds from being fussy, improves the dry matter feed intake and the weight grain of the ruminant and reduces the feed cost to save the feed grains; the present invention has balanced nutrition, thereby being good for improving the feed utilization rate and reducing the occurrence of various kinds of stress diseases of animals; the present invention is convenient for being stored and transported, etc.

A process for the utilization of the methane contained within ruminant animal exhalation, specifically to a process that utilizes the methane contained within ruminant animal exhalation as a source of carbon and / or energy for the production of methane-utilizing microorganisms in a microorganism growth-and-harvest apparatus.

A method and system for monitoring the physiological condition, and / or suitability of animal feed, of ruminant animals, by: sensing actions of the animal indicating a ruminating activity; and accumulating the time of the ruminating activities over a predetermined time period to provide an indication of the physiological condition of the animal, and / or of desirable changes in its feed for maximizing milk production and / or for maintaining animal health. In one described preferred embodiment, the sensed actions of the animal are chewing actions produced by the animal while chewing animal feed according to a predetermined chewing rhythm indicating a ruminating activity as distinguished from an eating activity. In a second described embodiment, the sensed actions of the animal are regurgitations of a bolus from the animal's rumen to the animal's mouth sensed by a collar around the animal's neck.

The invention relates to an animal feed additive containing compound enzyme. The additive is a microecological compound enzyme preparation mainly composed of xylanase, mannanase, beta-glucanase, cellulase, acid protease, alpha-amylase, phytase, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus licheniformis and the like. The product of the additive containing compound enzyme in the invention can be used as a novel feed additive, has no drug residue, no pollution and no generation of drug resistance, drug residues and drug-resistant strains, can be extensively applied to livestock feeds and ruminant feeds and has effects on improving the digestion and utilization rate of feeds, enhancing production performance of animals, strengthening immunity of animals, etc.

A method that accounts for environmental factors by measuring the starch and fiber degradation characteristics of a variety of genetically different crop plants and grain from crop plants in real time to determine how the crop plants should be conserved, processed and blended into a feed formulation that results in optimum productivity of the ruminant animal. A method further including determining starch digestibility characteristics of a set of crop plant samples comprising grain of said crop plant; developing a prediction equation based on said starch digestibility characteristics, obtaining a grain sample from a crop plant, determining in real time starch digestibility characteristics by NIRS of said sample by inputting data from said NIRS into said equation, storing and / or milling said grain on an identity preserved basis, and determining the amount of said crop plant to incorporate into a feed formulation based on the starch digestibility characteristics.

The coating composition which coats the biologically active substance includes at least one protective material selected from the group consisting of a hardened animal fat, a hardened vegetable oil, a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated aliphatic monocarboxylic acid having 12 to 22 carbon atoms, a fatty acid ester, and a wax group; lecithin; and at least one preservative selected from a propionic acid or its salt, a sorbic acid or its salt, a benzoic acid or its salt, a dehydroacetic acid or its salt, parahydroxybenzoic acid esters, an imazalil, a thiabendazole, an orthophenyl phenol, an orthophenyl phenol natrium, and a diphenyl.

An animal feed such as a milk replacer includes a soluble fiber and a sugar alcohol. The milk replacer enhances weight gain, starter intake and reduces weaning time. The method of feeding the animal includes feeding a mixture of a soluble fiber and sugar alcohol. The animal feed may be used as a method of weaning young ruminants such as calves.

A composition of matter comprising particles which contain choline chloride to be administered in a rumen-protected and post-ruminally effective form, each particle comprising a core which contains choline chloride and a protective coating surrounding the core and protecting choline chloride by ruminal activity while allowing its release into the post-rumen portion of the digestive tract of a ruminant. The core mainly consists of choline chloride in the form of a dry, crystalline powder and, in combination, the protective coating surrounding the core comprises an outer, continuous layer mainly consisting of carnauba wax and an inner, continuous layer consisting of an hydrophobic substance. A feed pellet containing the composition of matter and a premix for feed which contains the composition of matter. A premix for feed which contains feed pellets containing the composition of matter. Mash feed in unpelletted form containing the composition of matter.

The technology is a veterinary pharmaceutical formulation of two vaccines, one from an RNA viral vector system constituted by an RNA recombinant particle that codifies for a Cu / Zn superoxide dismutase protein of Brucella abortus, and the other based on naked RNA constituted by a recombinant molecule of naked RNA that carries a sequence for the synthesis of at least one recombinant Cu / Zn superoxide dismutase protein of Brucella abortus and some Semliki Forest virus genes. An expression system based on the Semliki Forest virus and a use of this system, in addition to a method for the preparation of the pharmaceutical formulations.

The invention discloses a high efficiency bioactivity animal feed additive product and a production method and application thereof. The invention pertains to the field of feed additive, which more particularly relates to a high efficiency bioactivity animal feed additive product that comprises various biogenk and a production method and application thereof. The invention solves the technical problem of providing a high efficiency bioactivity animal feed additive product, and the invention solves another technical problem of providing the production method and application of the high efficiency bioactivity animal feed additive product. The ingredients of the product of the invention comprise active bacillus subtilis, active yeast, active plant lactobacillus bacteria, Beta-glucanase, xylanase, cellulose and amylase; the production method of the invention comprises cultivation preparation and compound inocula of microorganism inocula. The product of the invention can improve microecology balance of enteric canal of ruminants, enhance utilization ratio of the feed, improve milkability of milk cows and quality of the milk, improve body immunity of the milk cows, thus reducing enteric canal diseases and purifying raising environments.

The invention relates to a banana planting by-product fermented feed and a processing method thereof. A tannin degradant, a fermenting agent, a moisture adsorbent, a nutritive additive and the like are added by taking banana stem leaves as main raw materials and one or more than one crop straw and pasture as auxiliary raw materials to prepare the fermented feed for feeding ruminants such as beefs, milch cows, sheep and the like through process links of equipment kneading, shaping, sealed anaerobic packaging and the like. The invention has simple process, high production rate and good technical economical efficiency, is simple and easy to apply and opens up the novel utilization way of the banana by-product; the fermented feed obviously reduces the adverse effect of tannin on the ruminants after being treated, has good feeding value, improved palatability and fragrant smell and meets the green concept; the product form is varied; and feed products have small volume and high density and can be stored and transported for long. The fermented feed has obvious social and economic benefits in the aspects of relieving the condition that the forage grass in the sheep / cattle farming in farming areas is insufficient, improving the growth effect of animals, reducing the feed cost, saving energy, improving efficiency and the like.

Methods, devices, and compositions relating to processed grain products are disclosed. An exemplary method disclosed is a fiber separation process for the ethanol industry corn products of Distillers Dried Grains (DDG) and Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) resulting from the widely used dry grind technology. A disclosed process and apparatus allows the removal and separate recovery of fiber-reduced DDG or DDGS products with expanded potential for use as a non-ruminant feed product in addition to the removal and separate recovery of a fiber-enriched product. The specific processes, devices, and compositions disclosed are readily adaptable to modern ethanol production plants.

A process for the utilization of the methane produced by enteric fermentation, specifically to a process that utilizes methane produced by ruminant animals through enteric fermentation as a source of carbon and / or energy for the directed production of methane-based goods or processes is provided.

The invention relates to a microbe vitamin premix material and a method for preparing the same, in particular to a microbe vitamin premix material consisting of a plurality of useful microbes and vitamins and a method for preparing the same. The microbe vitamin premix material comprises bacillus, microzyme, enterococcus, vitamin A, vitamin D3, vitamin E, vitamin K3 and vitamin 12, and is the microbe vitamin premix material generally for pigs, poultries, ruminant or aquatic animals. The microbe vitamin premix material has the animal immunization health care function as well as nutrient efficacy, and can improve illness resistant capability of animals, reduce the consumption of antibacterial drugs in feed, lower the drug resistant degree of bacteria, improve the feed utilization ratio, promote health of mankind and improve the ecological environment.

The invention belongs to the technical field of animal nutrition and feed, and especially relates to a total mixed ration for mutton sheep in?the fattening?period and a preparation method thereof. The total mixed ration for mutton sheep is characterized by comprising the following raw materials in percentage by weight: alfalfa hay 35.00-35.00%, yellow corn silage 8.00-12.00%, malt root 3.00-5.00%, corn 25.00-35.00%, bran 2.00-5.00%, soybean meal 6.00-12.00%, cottonseed meal 2.00-6.00%, yeast culture 0.20-0.60%, corn distiller's dried grains for feed 2.00-5.00%, coated calcium chloride 0.20-0.60%, calcium hydrogen phosphate 0.10-0.60%, sodium bicarbonate 0.10-0.40%, salt 0.10-0.50%, coated cysteamine 0.05-0.10%, a core premix 0.20-0.30%, a rumination composite enzyme 0.05-0.10%, stone powder 0.30-1.00%, and vegetable oil 0.50-1.00%. The total mixed ration has the following advantages that the immunity, the health level and the uniformity of mutton sheep in?the fattening?period are improved.