Animal growth promotant
AssigneeAbbott Laboratories
InventorsIrvin Darrow Smith, Eugene Wesley Seymour
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Abstract
Covers a method of accelerating the growth of animals by incorporating anhydroerythromycin in their feed. Also covers a feed composition containing said anhydroerythromycin.
Claims6
A method of increasing the rate of growth of warm-blooded vertebrate animals including pigs, comprising orally administering to said warm-blooded vertebrate animals a feed composition containing an amount of 2-100 grams of anhydroerythromycin per ton of said feed composition, wherey growth of said animals is accelerated.
An animal feed composition comprising a solid animal nutritional vehicle adapted for oral ingestion and having dispersed therethrough an amount of 2-100 grams of an anhydroerythromycin per ton of said feed composition.
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