Nutritional composition for increasing milk protein in mammals

Abstract

It is described a process to obtain increased milk production and/or greater milk protein concentration using supplements with a fatty acid mixture or through production of specific fatty acids within the animal. The process or the supplementation of the product described in this invention (supplements formulated with fatty acids mixtures and with adequate levels of metabolizable protein) allows greater efficiency and/or better quality and/or a healthier mammal with improved productivity. The process includes supplementation of specific types of fatty acids with or without ruminal protection to ruminants and, generally, a diet with metabolizable protein energy ratio greater than the one suggested by the state of the art. The process may include the production of the said compounds (conjugated fatty acids) on the animal itself from fat, certain compounds and microorganisms added to the diet capable of modifying the environment of the gut. The supplementation includes offering fatty acids capable of altering animal metabolism, as well as offering normal fatty acids (which do not change metabolism which, given some conditions in the rumen environment, can change their molecular structure and transform themselves in fatty acids capable of affecting tissue metabolism (including increasing protein content and yield). Both, the offering of the fatty acid with metabolic effects, as well as the production of these active fatty acids in the gut, make possible increases in the concentration and/or production of milk protein.

1 . A product for feeding mammalians to increase the concentration and/or rate of production of milk protein characterized by involving one or more unsaturated fatty acids (e.g. 18:2) in the molecule or compounds derived that have modifying functions in metabolism, associated or not with one or more vegetable oils or animal fat, including possible combinations with one or more feedstuffs and/or food supplements with differing metabolizable protein:energy ratio, and optionally flavoring agents, coloring additives, vitamins, minerals, conditioners, stabilizers, and others additives know by the men of the field.  
     
     
         2 . A product for feeding mammalians aiming to increase concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 1  characterized by involving the possible use of vegetable and animal oils.  
     
     
         3 . A product for feeding mammalians aiming to increase the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 1  characterized by the fact of being possible to use as supplements for by passing protein in the rumen, oilseed meals, animal by products, vegetable by products, and other known by the men in the field or yet mixture of them.  
     
     
         4 . A product for feeding mammalians aiming to increase the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 1  and  3  characterized by the fact of being possible to use fishmeal, soybean meal, cottonseed meal, meat meal, feather meal, blood meal, wheat middlings, soybean hulls, yeast, corn grain, citrus pulp, sorghum grain, etc or mixtures of them.  
     
     
         5 . A product for feeding mammalians aiming to increase the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 1  characterized by the fact of the fatty acid being in the conjugated form, including several combinations of positional and geometric (cis and/or trans) isomers, in different carbon positions.  
     
     
         6 . A product for feeding mammalians aiming to increase the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 1  and  5  characterized by the fact of using preferentially conjugated linoleic acid or not (CLA) and its derivatives that keep the metabolic modifying properties, as salts or esters, for instance.  
     
     
         7 . A product for feeding mammalians aiming to increase the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 6  characterized by the fact of using preferentially conjugated linoleic acid or not (CLA) preferentially as calcium salts.  
     
     
         8 . A product for feeding mammalians aiming to increase the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 6  characterized by the fact of being possible to use linoleic acid C18: cis 9, trans 11; C 18:2 trans 10, cis 12 and C 18:2 cis8, trans 10 in several different concentrations as well as just one specific fatty acid as C 18:2 trans 10, cis 12 and C 18:2 cis8, trans 10.  
     
     
         9 . A product for feeding mammalians aiming to increase the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 1  characterized by the fact of involving varying the mass proportions of the active ingredient or mixture of them having metabolic modifying function, in relation of the total mass of the product to provide the necessary amount to have the metabolic effect which would be in the range between 1 and 20 grams of the active product by animal and by day.  
     
     
         10 . A product for feeding mammalians aiming to increase the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 1  characterized by the fact of using about 0,5% to 90% in mass of the one or more insaturated fatty acids with 18 carbons in the molecule (active ingredient) in relation of the total mass of the mixture of lipids added to the ration or diet.  
     
     
         11 . A product for feeding mammalians aiming to increase the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 1  characterized by the fact of being possible to use fatty acids and their derivatives, and yet mixtures with amides and/or formaldehyde, or others processes to protect from biohydrogenation known from the men of the field.  
     
     
         12 . A process for obtaining an increase the concentration and/or production of milk protein characterized by the fact of feeding mammalians with one or more unsaturated fatty acids with 18 carbons molecule or its derivatives with metabolic modifying functions, associated or not with one or more vegetable or animal oils, in combination or not with one or more feedstuffs and/or feedstuffs supplements with varying metabolizable protein:energy ratio, optionally flavouring agents, coloring additives, vitamins, minerals, conditioners, stabilizers, and others additives know by the “homem da técnica” in amounts that makes it possible for the mammalian to absorb from 1 up to 95 grams of one or more fatty acids with 18 or 19 carbons per day and per animal.  
     
     
         13 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  characterized by the fact of when applied to confined cows that the animals receive the roughage and concentrate containing the fatty acids mixture as total mixed rations.  
     
     
         14 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  characterized by the fact of the process being possible to be utilized preferentially by cattle, goats, sheep or even human beings.  
     
     
         15 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  characterized by the fact of being possible to use as vegetable oil, palm oil.  
     
     
         16 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  characterized by the fact of the fatty acid mixture used with varying concentrations of the active ingredient being supplemented from 20 to 50 g/100 kg liveweight in the total diet or any specific portion of the diet.  
     
     
         17 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  characterized by the fact of the fatty acid mixture used with varying concentrations of the active ingredient being ingested in its protect form in amounts from 0.01 to 2.5 grains by day and by kilogram of liveweight, or 0.01 to 0.15 grams of active ingredient being absorbed by day and by kilogram of grazing animals, added to a concentrated or a multiple mixture supplement.  
     
     
         18 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  characterized by the fact of being possible to use as supplements for by passing protein in the rumen, oilseed meals, animal by products, vegetable by products, and other known by the men of the field or yet mixture of them.  
     
     
         19 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  and  18  characterized by the fact of being possible to use fishmeal, soybean meal, cottonseed meal, meat meal, feather meal, blood meal, wheat middlings, soybean hulls, yeast, corn grain, citrus pulp, sorghum grain, etc or mixtures of them.  
     
     
         20 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  characterized by the fact of the fatty acid being in the conjugated form, including several combinations of positional and geometric (cis and/or trans) isomers, in different carbon positions.  
     
     
         21 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  and  20  characterized by the fact of using preferentially conjugated linoleic acid or not (CLA) preferentially as calcium salts.  
     
     
         22 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 21  characterized by the fact of being possible to use linoleic acid C18: cis 9, trans 11; C 18:2 trans 10, cis 12 and C 18:2 cis8, trans 10 in several different concentrations as well as just one specific fatty acid as C 18:2 trans 10, cis 12 and C 18:2 cis8, trans 10.  
     
     
         23 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  characterized by the fact of using about 0,5% to 90% in mass of the one or more insaturated fatty acids with 18 carbons in the molecule (active ingredient) in relation of the total mass of the mixture of lipids added to the ration or diet.  
     
     
         24 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 21  characterized by the fact of using preferentially between 1% to 80% in mass of the active ingredient in relation of the total mass of the mixture of lipids added to the ration or diet.  
     
     
         25 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  characterized by the fact of possibility that the active ingredient can be used in the protected form that uses the formation of calcium salts of fatty acids, or its mixtures with “amidas” or formaldehydes, or yet anothers processes of protection against biohydrogenation of fat without metabolic effects, known by the men of the field.  
     
     
         26 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  characterized by the fact of the insaturated fatty acids being possible to be used in combination with several different ration ingredients, including sources of fermentable carbohydrates, proteins, additives, antibiotics, ingredients that can alter the digestive tract pH in a manner that it elicits the production in situ of the fatty acids with metabolic modifying capabilities, from fatty acids added to the diet that do not have the modifying effects before the here said conversion due to the characteristics of the ration's ingredients.  
     
     
         27 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 12  characterized by the fact that the diet can be formulated in a manner to result in a surplus of 10 to 50% of metabolizable protein in mass.  
     
     
         28 . A process for obtaining an increase in the concentration and/or production of milk protein as in  claim 21  characterized by the fact of the roughages of diet can be conserved, as hay and silages, forages directly grazed by the animals or other fibrous feedstuffs like sugarcane bagasse treated under steam and pressure or in natura.  
     
     
         29 . A process for obtaining milk that permits greater efficiency of production and/or quality for dairy products produced with this milk, obtained as described in the  claims 12  to  28 .  
     
     
         30 . A product used when feeding mammals in order to improve reproductive performance characterized by involving one or more unsaturated fatty acids (e.g. 18:2) in the molecule or compounds derived that have modifying functions in metabolism, associated or not with one or more vegetable oils or animal fat, including possible combinations with one or more feedstuffs and/or food supplements with differing metabolizable protein:energy ratio, and optionally flavoring agents, coloring additives, vitamins, minerals, conditioners, stabilizers, and others additives know by the men of the field.