Buffered animal feed supplement block
AssigneePacific Kenyon Corp.
InventorJ. Wallace Sawhill
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Abstract
A buffer containing, solid, animal feed supplement which has the proper hardness and palatibility to achieve a daily animal consumption of 0.2-0.5 pound of sodium carbonate or bicarbonate and 0.07-0.15 pound of magnesium oxide with free choice feeding. The feed supplement is a solidified mixture of various feed ingredients with a feed solution of sugars or proteins, and mixtures thereof. The supplement is solidified by sodium carbonate, or a mixture thereof, and magnesium oxide.
Claims20
A method of feeding ruminants which comprises:
- (a) preparing a solid feed supplement in block form having a total water content from 10 to 35 weight percent and consisting essentially of from 30 to 95 weight percent of a feed solution containing 40 to 95 percent solids of sugar, protein, or mixtures thereof and, solidifying and buffering ingredients consisting essentially of sodium carbonate, sodium bicarbonate, and mixtures thereof in an amount from 8 to 25 weight percent of said supplement, and from 2 to 5 weight percent magnesium oxide of said supplement;
- (b) feeding said solid feed supplement to the ruminant for free choice consumption;
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- (c) controlling the free choice consumption of the feed supplement at a level from 1 to about 4 pounds per day by maintaining the quantities of said solidifying and buffering ingredients at the amounts sufficient to impart a preselected hardness to said solid feed supplement.
A water resistant, solid, animal feed supplement in block form containing from 10 to 35 weight percent water, and consisting essentially of:
- (a) from 30 to 90 percent of an aqueous syrup containing from 40 to 95 percent solids comprising a feed nutrient selected from the group consisting of sugar, protein, and mixtures thereof;
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- (b) solidifying and buffering ingredients consisting essentially of:
- (i) from 2 to 5 weight percent magnesium oxide;
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- (ii) from 8 to 25 weight percent of sodium carbonate, bicarbonate, or mixtures thereof, whereby said supplement has sufficient hardness to permit free choice feeding.
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