Growth performance improvements in pasture and feedlot systems

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12108775-B2
Application number	US-202117314190-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 7, 2021
Priority date	Jul 29, 2016
Publication date	Oct 8, 2024
Grant date	Oct 8, 2024

Abstract

The invention relates to utilising red marine macroalgae to provide improvements in growth performance.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for improving the growth performance of a ruminant livestock animal in a farming system including:
providing a red marine macroalgae to a farming system to enable consumption of the red marine macroalgae by a ruminant livestock animal in the farming system;

thereby improving the growth performance of the livestock animal in the system,
wherein the red marine macroalgae is prepared by adding the red marine macroalgae to a natural base or raw material and/or additive, or wherein the red marine macroalgae is prepared by a method of preparing a ruminant animal feed supplement comprising the step of adding the red marine macroalgae to an excipient; and
wherein the red marine macroalgae is an Asparagopsis species.

2. A method according to claim 1 , wherein a liquid, solid or semi-solid animal feed supplement is prepared from the red marine macroalgae added to a natural base, raw material, additive, and/or excipient.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the farming system is a pasture farming system.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the farming system is a cultivated pasture farming system.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the farming system is a stocker operation.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the farming system is a feedlot system.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the macroalgae is provided in the form of a lick stone or lick block.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the macroalgae is provided in the form of a feed for use in a pasture or feedlot system.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the red marine macroalgae is provided to the animal at 10 to 30 g/day.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method improves feed conversion ratio or animal growth rate.

Assignees

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

Inventors

• Tomkins Nigel William
• De Nys Rocky
• Kinley Robert Douglas
• Magnusson Marie Elisabeth
• Machado Lorenna
• Paul Nicholas Andrew

Classifications

• A61K36/02

  Algae · CPC title

• A23K20/24

  Compounds of alkaline earth metals, e.g. magnesium · CPC title

• A23K20/20

  Inorganic substances, e.g. oligoelements · CPC title

• A23K40/10 Primary

  by agglomeration; by granulation, e.g. making powders · CPC title

• A23K10/16

  Addition of microorganisms or extracts thereof, e.g. single-cell proteins, to feeding-stuff compositions (A23K10/12 takes precedence) · CPC title