Purina Animal Nutrition LLC

Theodore Karnezos

Kay Russo

Benjamin R Trible

Daniel Grum

Diana Ayala

Emily Kimminau

Nicholas Evans

Joseph Dart

Compositions for preventing or decreasing cryptosporidiosis in animals are disclosed herein. The compositions include sources of hydrogen peroxide and are fed to animals. The animals may be neonatal calves and the cryptosporidiosis may be caused by. Methods of preventing or decreasing cryptosporidiosis in animals by feeding the hydrogen peroxide-generating compositions to the animals are also disclosed. Some disclosed methods reduce the number ofoocysts shed by an infected animal or reduce the infectivity ofoocysts shed by an infected animal. Some methods include feeding the hydrogen peroxide-generating compositions to animals ultimately afflicted with cryptosporidiosis, and the animals gain weight despite the infection.

Mitigation of cryptosporidiosis using hydrogen peroxide-generating compositions

The present disclosure describes animal feed products formulated to inhibit focal ulcerative dermatitis, and methods of feeding such products to the animals. Feeding methods involve providing poultry with a feed product that includes a base feed and a direct-fed microbial composition. The direct-fed microbial composition includes one or more strains of. The poultry can include cage-free layer hens at risk of developing, or already diagnosed with, focal ulcerative dermatitis. Inhibition of focal ulcerative dermatitis can increase the egg production of the layer hens relative to layer hens fed the same base feed but lacking the direct-fed microbial composition.

Feed compositions and methods for inhibiting focal ulcerative dermatitis

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Colchester, VT, United States of America

Theodore Karnezos