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1. A method of feeding a lactating ruminant, the method comprising:
obtaining a formula feed combined with sugar alcohol, the formula feed comprising one or more of soybean meal, cotton seed, distiller's grains, soy hulls or wheat middlings; and feeding the formula feed combined with the sugar alcohol to the lactating rumina daily feed ration,
wherein the daily feed ration comprises forage, non-forage feed components and the formula feed combined with the sugar alcohol, the non-forage feed components comprising one or more of another formula feed, a grain, a bean, a grain product or a bean product,wherein the forage comprises about 45 to about 60 weight percent of the daily feed ration, based upon the total dry matter weight of the daily feed ration, and the formula feed in combination with the non-forage feed components comprises about 40 to about 55 weight percent of the daily feed ration, based upon the total dry matter weight of the daily feed ration,wherein oral ingestion of the daily feed ration by the lactating ruminant causes the sugar alcohol to exit the rumen in an amount effective to increase milk production, andwherein the sugar alcohol comprises one or more of adonitol, allitol, altritol, arabinitol, duicitol, erythritol, galaxitol, giucitol, iditol, inositol, isomalt, lactitol, maititol, mannitol, perseitol, ribitol, rhamnitol, sorbitol, threitol or xylitol. |
