| abstract |
microbial products for animals. The present invention relates to directly fed microorganisms for use in improving reproductive performance in animals, reducing loss from death and/or non-feeding events in animals, improving milk production and/or milk quality in dairy animals and inhibition of a disease or disorder in dairy animals selected from the group consisting of milk fever, ketosis, retained placenta, metritis, pneumonia and displaced abomasum. more particularly, the invention relates to isolated bacillus strains (86, 300, 101, 235, 177 and 102) and strains having all the identifying characteristics of these strains for uses comprising the aforementioned uses. |