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US 9,427,414 B2Granted
Method and composition for enhancing milk production
AssigneeLand O'Lakes, Inc.
InventorCindie M. Luhman
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a method of enhancing milk production by a ruminant that includes providing a feed that contains sorbitol and at least one additional feed component, and orally feeding the feed to the ruminant, the ruminant ingesting about 100 grams, or less, of sorbitol per day.
Claims7
A method of increasing milk production in a lactating ruminant without statistically increasing dry matter intake, the method comprising:
- top dressing a feed with sugar alcohol, the feed comprising forage or one or more non-forage feed components, the sugar alcohol comprising one or more of adonitol, allitol, altritol, arabinitol, dulcitol, erythritol, galaxitol, glucitol, iditol, inositol, isomalt, lactitol, maltitol, mannitol, perseitol, ribitol, rhamnitol, sorbitol, threitol or xylitol,
- feeding the lactating ruminant the top-dressed feed in a feed ration;
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- observing the lactating ruminant fed the feed ration exhibits increased milk production without statistically increasing dry matter intake.
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