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US 6,746,698 B2Granted
Animal feed, method for preparing animal feed, and method for feeding an animal
AssigneeGrain Processing Corporation
InventorDaniel R. Freeman
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Abstract
Disclosed is an animal feed. The animal feed includes fat, preferably vegetable oil; a solid nutritive source; such as a whole seed or grain or a fraction thereof; and a binder, the binder comprising hemicellulose. Also disclosed are methods for preparing an animal feed and for feeding an animal. When formulated into pellets, the disclosed animal feeds have excellent durability, such that pellet fracture and dust formation are minimized.
Claims64
An animal feed comprising:
- a fat, said fat being present in an amount effective to provide nutritive fat to an animal;
- a solid nutritive source;
- and
- a hemicellulose binder, said animal feed being in the form of discrete plural particles of a size suitable for feeding to an animal, said hemicellulose binder being present in each of said particles in at least an amount effective to improve intraparticle cohesion.
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A method for preparing an animal feed, comprising:
- providing a fat, a solid nutritive source, and hemicellulose;
- combining said fat, said solid nutritive source, and said hemicellulose to form a mixture;
- and
- forming discrete plural particles of animal feed from said mixture, said fat being present in said animal feed in an amount effective to provide nutritive fat to an animal and said hemicellulose being present in each of said particles in at least an amount effective to improve intraparticle cohesion, said particles being of a size suitable for feeding to an animal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.