Macromineral dietary factors in ruminant nutrition

Macromineral dietary factors in ruminant nutrition

This invention provides a feedstock for improving the lactational performance of dairy cows. An essential feature of an invention feedstock is a dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) with a value between about 25-60 meq/100 g dietary DM. Other essential features of a preferred feedstock are an atom...

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Hauptverfasser: KENNETH R CUMMINGS, ELLIOT BLOCK, WILLIAM K. SANCHEZ, WILLIAM ZUCCARELLA
Format: Patent
Sprache:eng
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FODDER
FOODS OR FOODSTUFFS
HUMAN NECESSITIES
THEIR TREATMENT, NOT COVERED BY OTHER CLASSES
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Zusammenfassung:This invention provides a feedstock for improving the lactational performance of dairy cows. An essential feature of an invention feedstock is a dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) with a value between about 25-60 meq/100 g dietary DM. Other essential features of a preferred feedstock are an atomic ratio of potassium:sodium between about 1-5:1, a weight ratio of potassium:magnesium between about 3-5:1, and DCAD sodium-containing and potassium-containing macrominerals are selected from bicarbonate, carbonate and sesquicarbonate type compounds.