Animal feed block
AssigneeMilo Don Appleman
InventorStanislao A. DeSantis
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Abstract
In the preparation of an animal feed block, molasses and a water absorbent clay such as attapulgite clay are subjected to high speed shearing action to obtain a dispersion thereof and thereafter the dispersion is mixed with a water binding agent such as calcium sulfate hemihydrate, a hard metallic soap former such as calcium oxide, a fatty acid soap former such as yellow grease and one or more of the following: natural protein source such as cottonseed meal, non-protein nitrogen source such as urea, a phosphorous source such as phosphoric acid, and fat such as tallow to thereby obtain a nutrient composition which sets to a hard block.
Claims14
An animal feed block comprising:
- about 25 to about 75% by wt. of molasses;
- about 0.5 to about 5% by wt. of water absorbent clay;
- about 0.2 to about 3% by wt. of water binding agent;
- about 0.5 to about 10% by wt. of hard soap;
- and
- a member selected from the group consisting of natural protein source in an amount from about 5 to about 35% by wt., non-protein nitrogen source in an amount from about 2 to about 10% by wt., phosphorous source in an amout from about 0.5 to about 7% by weight calculated as phosphorous, fatty acid in an amount from about 1 to about 10% by wt., fat in an amount from about 1 to about 5% by wt., and mixtures thereof to make up 100% by weight of said feed block.
A process for preparing an animal feed block which comprises:
- subjecting about 25 to about 75% by wt. of molasses and about 0.5 to about 5% by wt. of water absorbent clay to high speed shearing action to obtain a dispersion thereof;
- and
- mixing the dispersion of water absorbent clay and molasses with:
- about 0.2 to about 3% by wt. of water binding agent;
- about 0.5 to about 5% by wt. of hard metallic soap former;
- about 2 to about 20% by wt. of fatty acid soap former;
- and
- a member selected from the group consisting of protein source in an amount from about 5 to about 35% by wt., non-protein nitrogen source in an amount from about 2 to about 10% by wt., phosphorous source in an amount from about 0.5 to about 7% by weight calculated as phosphorous, fat in an amount from about 1 to about 5% by wt. and mixtures thereof to make up 100% by wt.;
- to thereby obtain a homogeneous nutrient composition which sets to a hard block, said percents by weight herein being based on the weight of the hard block.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.