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US 2020/0260759 A1Published application
Diet formulations for ruminants
AssigneeBoveta Nutrition LLC
InventorMonty S. Kerley
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Abstract
Methods for formulating an adjusted diet and/or a dietary supplement for a ruminant are disclosed. The adjusted diet and/or dietary supplement are formulated to mitigate an amino acid deficiency of the ruminant's unaltered diet and provide the ruminant with an amino acid-balanced diet. Methods of administering the adjusted diet and/or dietary supplement also are disclosed.
Claims25
A method, comprising:
- determining, based at least in part on an amino acid comparison between a prediction of dietary amino acid and microbial amino acid flow to a ruminant's small intestine and an amino acid requirement of the ruminant, an amount of urea, a protein source, peptides, rumen-protected peptides, rumen-protected amino acids, or any combination thereof, to add to an unaltered diet of the ruminant to provide an amino acid-balanced diet that meets an amino acid requirement of the ruminant based at least in part upon usable energy consumed by the ruminant and an energy requirement of the ruminant, wherein the usable energy is effective energy or metabolizable energy and the energy requirement is an effective energy requirement or a metabolizable energy requirement;
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- preparing an adjusted diet, a dietary supplement, or a combination thereof, comprising the amount of urea, protein source, peptides, rumen-protected peptides, rumen-protected amino acids, or combination thereof.
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