Growth performance improvements in pasture and feedlot systems
AssigneesCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Meat & Livestock Australia Limited, James Cook University
InventorsNigel William TOMKINS, Rocky DE NYS, Robert Douglas KINLEY, Marie Elisabeth MAGNUSSON, Lorenna MACHADO, Nicholas Andrew PAUL
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Abstract
The invention relates to utilising red marine macroalgae to provide improvements in growth performance.
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A method for improving the growth performance of a ruminant livestock animal in a farming system including:
- providing a red marine macroalgae to a farming system to enable consumption of the red marine macroalgae by a ruminant livestock animal in the farming system;
- thereby improving the growth performance of the livestock animal in the system,
- wherein the red marine macroalgae is prepared by adding the red marine macroalgae to a natural base or raw material and/or additive, or wherein the red marine macroalgae is prepared by a method of preparing a ruminant animal feed supplement comprising the step of adding the red marine macroalgae to an excipient;
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- wherein the red marine macroalgae is an Asparagopsis species.
A method of preparing a growth performance increasing ruminant animal feed supplement comprising the step of adding a red marine macroalgae to a natural base or raw material and/or additive, wherein the red marine macroalgae is an Asparagopsis species.
A method of preparing a growth performance increasing ruminant animal feed supplement comprising the step of adding a red marine macroalgae to an excipient, wherein the red marine macroalgae is an Asparagopsis species.
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