| abstract |
The present invention relates to a method for improving the performance of an individual or for improving the digestibility of a raw material in a food (e.g., nutrient digestibility, such as amino acid digestibility), or for improving nitrogen retention, or to improve the absorption and retention of dietary phosphorus, or to improve the efficiency of phytase, or to improve the individual's resistance to necrotic enteritis or to improve the food conversion rate (FCR) or to improve weight gain in a patient or to improve feeding efficiency in an individual or to modulate (for example, exacerbate) the patient's immune response or to reduce populations of pathogenic bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract of an individual, or to reduce the excretion of nutrients in the manure, where the method comprises administering to an individual, at least one direct feed microbial in combination c on a phytase, where phytase is administered to the individual at a dosage of more than about 1,500 FTU / kg of food. |