Patent ID: 9427414
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: A23K,A61K,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A method of increasing milk production in a lactating ruminant without statistically increasing dry matter intake, the method comprising: top dressing a feed with sugar alcohol, the feed comprising forage or one or more non-forage feed components, 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, feeding the lactating ruminant the top-dressed feed in a feed ration; and observing the lactating ruminant fed the feed ration exhibits increased milk production without statistically increasing dry matter intake.