Animal feed or feed additive as performance enhancer or appetite enhancer for live stock

#The invention relates to an animal feed which contains conventional animal feed substances, like grains or grain products, maize, protein and aromatic amino acids, vitamins, mineral additives like salt, phosphates or lime, enzymes and the like. The invention further relates to animal feed additives, the use of benzophenanthridine alkaloids and to a medicament.

#Aromatic amino acids, like for example tryptophane and alanine, are essential nutrients which the body itself cannot produce, except for ruminants. They are a substantial component of the recipes for nutrients and animal feeds. In animal feeds they serve to ensure, as is also the case for other amino acids, the requisite balance between the individual essential and nonessential amino acids in a predetermined proportion to the content of other essential amino acids. Their use contributes to the cost.

#In mammalian waste there is a wide range of microorganisms which with the aid of their enzymes, serve to decompose these amino acids, for example the aromatic aminoacid-decarboxylase. As a result, the starting balance which is intended in the preparation of the feed between the individual amino acids is disrupted. The quality of the meat of the animals is thereby reduced.

#1 (In weight percent) Wheat: 42% Maize: 20% Sunflowers 3.6% Soy scrap I 4% Soy scrap II 16.6% Rape scrap 4% Fodder oil 6.5% Methionine 0.26% Lysine 0.48% Mono Calcium Phosphate 0.85% Lime 0.5% Salt 0.025% Premix 1.0% Enzymes 0.2% Amino Acids Protein 19.2% Lysine 0.824% Methane 0.276% Meth + Cystine 0.568% Threonine 0.08% Tryptophane 0.24%

#The animal feed in pigs corresponding to FIG. 1. The given amounts of papaveraceae were added in grams of the dried root material with 1.5% by weight of the sanguinarine alkaloid per ton of the animal feed. The animal species was: Great Yorkshire plus crossing sows. The amounts were per group of 23-24 animals. 2 Group of Test Animals a b c Papaveraceae g/t Starter/Prefeed 22 kg-48 kg 0 0 15 Final Feed 48 kg-109 kg 0 30 30

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