Feed for bovine neonates breeding and a process for its use

#This invention is related to balanced feed for breeding bovines and, especially feed for breeding bovine neonates and the necessary process for applying it to newborn animals in order to provide them with a feed specifically prepared for highly accelerating the optimum development of the rumen; thus allowing neonates to be weaned on the second or third week of life, and providing an excellent animal growth under optimum sanitary conditions.

#An additional purpose of this invention comprises the optimization of available resources for breeding, due to the fact that providing bovine neonates with this kind of feed, the management of breeding animals is remarkably simplified and cost effective by reducing cost and labor expenses of milk and/or milk substitutes.

#Therefore, the purpose of this invention is obtaining a feed scientifically prepared for highlighting and taking advantage of the natural physiological conditions of bovine neonates during their digestive evolution from monogastric and milk-fed animals—pre-ruminant phase—to polygastric animals which depend only on dry feed intakes—ruminant phase. Bovine neonates needed a 4-month period to completely achieve this transformation. Through the feed and system of the invention, this takes approximately 14 days.

#Physiological Bases for Weaning Calves by the 14th day After Birth With the Formulation of the Invention.

#According to what has been said, newborn calves have an enzymatic activity related to an immature digestive capacity, very high lactase activity, low amylase and muitase activities and non-existent disaccharidase activity. Therefore, lactose is easily digested, amylase and starch are not so easily digested and saccharose is indigestible.

#As a result, it is clear that enzymes supply in newborn calves determines the digestion of carbohydrates. At the pancreas, maltase activity remains constant and amylase activity increases considerably in comparison with the gradual increase of starch intakes by calves, becoming constant around the one hundredth day of life. It has also been proved that the enzymes activities are totally dependent on the ingesta, having a great adaptability to dietary changes.