Patent ID: 9549565
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: A23K,A61K

Claim:
1. A method of providing a nutritional composition to poultry comprising, a) providing a supplement composition to poultry for a particular time period in the lifespan of the poultry or continuously, wherein the supplement composition comprises an effective amount of an extracted mineral element composition prepared by a method consisting of: one acid treatment step, a settling step, a separating step, a concentration step, and optionally, a drying step, wherein the one acid treatment step consists of admixing a clay soil, a mixture of clay soils, or a mixture of clay soils and leonardite with water in an amount at least two times the weight of the soil and an acid to produce a water-acid-soil slurry, wherein the amount of acid is 0.25% to 7.5% of the weight of the water; wherein the settling step consists of allowing solids from the water-acid-soil slurry to settle; wherein the separating step consists of separating the liquid of the water-acid-soil slurry from the settled solids wherein the settled solids comprise substantially all of the silicon and aluminum from the clay soil, mixture of clay soils, or a mixture of clay soils and leonardite; wherein the concentrating step consists of concentrating the separated liquid to form a liquid extracted mineral element composition comprising calcium, chlorine, magnesium, manganese, phosphorous, potassium, silicon, and sodium, in a concentration from 0.0001% to 20.00% w/w; wherein the optional drying step consists of drying the concentrated liquid to form a dry extracted mineral element composition; and wherein feeding poultry the extracted mineral element composition increases hatch rate, increases egg fertility, increases survival rate of young poultry, increases weight of poultry, increases feed conversion, improves egg production, or increases growth rate of poultry.