Method for reducing total gas production and/or methane production in a ruminant animal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11883449-B2
Application number	US-202017103106-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 24, 2020
Priority date	Jan 21, 2014
Publication date	Jan 30, 2024
Grant date	Jan 30, 2024

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method of reducing total gas production and/or methane production in a ruminant animal.

First claim

The claims defining the invention are as follows:

1. A methane reducing ruminant animal feed comprising a methane reducing amount of a methane reducing red macroalgae comprising Asparagopsis in combination with a ruminant animal feed.

2. A methane reducing ruminant animal feed according to claim 1 wherein the Asparagopsis is provided in a form in which the secondary metabolites remain effective.

3. A methane reducing ruminant animal feed according to claim 1 wherein the Asparagopsis is Asparagopsis taxiformis and/or Asparagopsis armata.

4. An anti-methanogenic ruminant animal feed according to claim 1 wherein the feed comprises at least 0.067% Asparagopsis of organic matter of the feed.

5. An anti-methanogenic ruminant animal feed according to claim 1 wherein the feed comprises at least 0.125% Asparagopsis of organic matter of the feed.

6. An anti-methanogenic ruminant animal feed according to claim 1 wherein the feed comprises at least 0.25% Asparagopsis of organic matter of the feed.

7. An anti-methanogenic ruminant animal feed according to claim 1 wherein the feed comprises at least 0.5% Asparagopsis of organic matter of the feed.

8. An anti-methanogenic ruminant animal feed according to claim 1 wherein the feed comprises at least 1% Asparagopsis of organic matter of the feed.

9. A method of making a methane reducing ruminant animal feed comprising
adding a methane reducing animal feed supplement comprising a methane reducing amount of a methane reducing red macroalgae to a ruminant animal feed,
wherein the methane reducing red macroalgae comprises Asparagopsis.

10. A method according to claim 9 wherein the Asparagopsis is provided in a form in which the secondary metabolites remain effective.

11. A method according to claim 10 wherein the Asparagopsis is Asparagopsis taxiformis and/or Asparagopsis armata.

12. A method methane reducing animal feed supplement according to claim 10 wherein the feed comprises at least 0.067% Asparagopsis of organic matter of the feed.

13. A method according to claim 10 wherein the feed comprises at least 0.125% Asparagopsis of organic matter of the feed.

14. A method according to claim 10 wherein the feed comprises at least 0.25% Asparagopsis of organic matter of the feed.

15. A method according to claim 10 wherein the feed comprises at least 0.5% Asparagopsis of organic matter of the feed.

16. A method according to claim 10 wherein the feed comprises at least 1% Asparagopsis of organic matter of the feed.

17. A method of making a methane reducing animal feed comprising adding a methane reducing animal feed supplement consisting of a methane reducing red macroalgae, wherein the methane reducing red macroalgae is Asparagopsis , to a ruminant animal feed.

18. A method according to claim 17 wherein the Asparagopsis is provided in a form in which the secondary metabolites remain effective.

19. A method according to claim 17 wherein the feed comprises at least 0.067% Asparagopsis of organic matter of the feed.

Assignees

• Commw Scient Ind Res Org
• Australian Meat & Live Stock
• Univ James Cook

Inventors

• Machado Lorenna
• Magnusson Marie Elisabeth
• Tomkins Nigel William
• Kinley Robert Douglas
• Denys Peter Canisius
• Paul Nicholas Andrew

Classifications

• A61K36/04 Primary

  Rhodophycota or rhodophyta (red algae), e.g. Porphyra · CPC title

• A23K10/30

  from material of plant origin, e.g. roots, seeds or hay; from material of fungal origin, e.g. mushrooms (obtained by microbiological or biochemical processes, e.g. using yeasts or enzymes, A23K10/10) · CPC title

• A23K50/10

  for ruminants · CPC title

• A61K9/0056

  Mouth soluble or dispersible forms; Suckable, eatable, chewable coherent forms; Forms rapidly disintegrating in the mouth; Lozenges; Lollipops; Bite capsules; Baked products; Baits or other oral forms for animals · CPC title

• A61P1/00

  Drugs for disorders of the alimentary tract or the digestive system · CPC title