Selective starch feeding protocol
AssigneePurina Mills, Inc.
InventorsDavid C. Weakley, Kent J. Lanter, Lawrence F. Reutzel
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Abstract
The present invention includes a method for improving milk production in a ruminant. An amount of ruminally digestible starch in relation to the dry matter of a feed is manipulated to include a first selected ratio of ruminally digestible starch in relation to the dry matter of the feed which is fed to the ruminant during a first time interval after parturition. After the first time interval, the amount of ruminally digestible starch component in the dry matter of the feed is adjusted to a second ratio, lower than the first ratio, and fed to the ruminant.
Claims17
1-39. (canceled)
A method for improving at least one of milk production and dry matter intake in a cow, the method comprising:
- selecting a starch component for incorporating into an amount of dry matter of a feed formulation;
- determining a ruminal starch digestibility for the selected starch component;
- selecting a target rumen digestibility value of the starch component of the dry matter for the cow;
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- manipulating the starch component to adjust the ruminal starch digestibility from the determined ruminal starch digestibility to the selected target ruminal starch digestibility value;
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- feeding the manipulated starch component to the cow in the feed formulation to improve at least one of milk production and dry matter intake.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.