Method and composition for enhancing milk production

摘要

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.

主权项

1. A method of increasing milk production in a lactating ruminant without statistically increasing dry matter intake, the method comprising:
feeding the lactating ruminant a feed ration, the feed ration comprising sugar alcohol, forage and at least one non-forage feed component, 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, and the at least one non-forage feed component comprising one or more of a grain, a bean, a grain product or a bean product; and observing the lactating ruminant fed the feed ration exhibits increased milk production without statistically increasing dry matter intake.