| 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 whitch, 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. |