DD280897A1 - FREE FOOD FOR DOGS - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a complete feed for dogs, preferably compacted, which can be used for rearing and keeping. By admixing the carbohydrate-containing energy carrier CCM silage to the usual feed components such. B. protein-rich animal feed, vegetable and animal oils, fats, vitamins and mineral mixtures u. a. good acceptance and easy digestibility.

Description

Characteristic of the known state of the art

Dog foods are known which, in addition to conventional ingredients, e.g. Proteins, fats and vitamins, carbohydrate-containing shares. Thus, starchy products, eg. As cereals, used as a cheap source of energy in dog food.

The disadvantage is that after feeding of larger amounts of native wheat starch indigestion, diarrhea, in dogs occur (Drochner Kleintierpraxis 22 [1977 | P. 191-200).

Unmouthed starch is insufficiently digested in the anterior intestinal area by the body's own enzymes and is then available in the caudal intestinal parts for microbial reactions. As a result, lower, volatile fatty acids are formed, the pH is lowered, the osmolarity of the chyme is increased, there is an influx of water into the intestinal lumen, reduced droppings and diarrhea (Meyer, Drochner, Schmidt, Riklin and Thomee, 1978 Nutrition of the dog and cat [RS Anderson ed., Pergamon Press, Oxford). High carbohydrate contents of the feed thus lead to increased fecal and renal water losses, increase the water requirement for metabolic processes and are therefore the cause of compensatory increased drinking water intake. Investigations (Banta, Clemens, Krinsky and Strffy: J. Nutr! 109 [1979] pp. 1592-1600) for the concentration of lactic acid in different sections of the digestive tract at different times postprandially after ingestion of a meat or cereal rice yielded within cereal feeding In the first 8 hours postprandial, there was a more or less continuous increase in lactate concentrations in the caudal sections of the small and large intestine, whereas in the stomach and anterior intestinal sections only small increases in concentrate were observed. When meat was fed, a strong increase in the stomach was observed after only 2 hours postprandially, but after 2 more hours it had fallen off again. In the small and large intestine meat feeding showed only slight changes in the lactic acid concentration compared to the fasted state. As a result, it can be found that a high concentration of lactic acid in the stomach leads to a favorable pH shift in the acidic region and a low lactalkon concentration in the small intestine is desirable in order to realize an alkaline environment and thus to obtain maximum enzyme activity.

For these reasons, these feeds are not taken very much and are limited in their durability. The digestibility of these starch-containing products is therefore to a large extent dependent on an energy-consuming expensive thermal, mechanical or hydrothermal treatment (Meyer, H. Schmidt, P. J., Heckötter, E., see Animal Nutrition 9 (1981) p.71-104).

An exception is raw corn starch (Mühlum, A., Diss. Hannover 1987), which is used in many countries as a foodstuff for humans and a major energy source in feed mixtures for the production of animal products.

Object of the invention

The aim of the invention is to provide a complete food for dogs, which meets all performance requirements during each age group of dogs and is well accepted by the dogs. It should be simple and cheap to manufacture, have a good shelf life and do not require valuable human-needed food.

Explanation of the essence of the invention

The invention has for its object to provide a complete feed for dogs, which has a pH in the weakly acidic range and meets the physiological conditions of the digestive tract of the dog. According to the invention, the object is achieved by a complete feed for growing and adult dogs with or without performance requirements, which in its composition consists of conventional feed components, such as e.g. protein-free animal feed, vegetable and animal oils, fats, vitamins and mineral mixtures. As energy source, a proportion of up to 80% of the feed grain supplement corn kernel-spindle-mixture-silage (CCM) is added to the feed.

The CCM silage is a moist concentrate whose nutrient content depends on the variety, the TS content of the flasks and the co-harvested spindle content. The harvest of CCM silage is recommended with a TS content of 55%. By reducing the co-harvested spindle portion in CCM silage for the production of raw fiber poor silage, the proportion increases

on crude protein, crude fat and starch. It should also be noted that the fat of corncob products, as well as corn kernels, is characterized by a very high content of unsaturated fatty acids (80-90%). The linoleic acid accounts for only 50% of the total fatty acids, so that in dog food mixtures with a high proportion of CCM silage supply of vegetable oils is unnecessary as a carrier of essential fatty acids.

The advantages of the feeds according to the invention are that the pH of the CCM silage portion in the complete feed, preferably in compacted form (eg pellets), is around 5.0. The food, which is slightly sour, is very well accepted by dogs and is characterized by a very good digestibility. The causes are in addition to the pleasant smell for the dog in the fact that the complete food in the stomach of the dog already enriched with lactic acid arrives. Thus, the entire stomach contents, including the other feed ingredients, better acidified and much easier digested. Especially in growing dogs, the lactic acid causes a better absorption of minerals.

Milk acid is further attributed to an antibiotic effect. This organic acid inhibits microbial activity and improves digestion and absorption processes. Furthermore, it causes a langjre durability of the complete food.

The invention will be explained in more detail using an exemplary embodiment.

embodiment

To test the dog food according to the invention a 28-day feeding trial was carried out on adult dogs of the breed "German Shepherd Dog" (DSH) which had four to six hours daily training (submission, track work, protection training) .The control group included 5 male DSH (3-5 Years old) and the experimental group of 8 male and 2 female DSH (2-7 years old) .The DSH were housed individually in kennels The animals of the control group received a feed mixture of feed meat and oat flakes, the dogs of the experimental group the pelleted finished feed to be tested. The composition and the crude nutrient analysis are shown in Table 1. From the 1st to the 6th day of each week, the animals of the experimental group received 800g pellets, the 7th day was futile as well as the control group, drinking water was ad libitum available.

A food back weighing was not done because the dogs consumed the offered amount of food completely.

Results:

The dogs of the experimental group did not differ in condition and constitution from those of the control group. The test dogs had egg very good feed intake. Health status and stool consistency were normal. All laboratory values are in the physiological range. The newly developed and tested pelletized Alone Butler met a performance feed in all requirements.

Furthermore, it is possible to produce a compacted dog food by increasing the proportion of crude fiber-rich CCM silage in the Futtf rmischung (up to 80% of Futtertrockensubstanz), which is particularly suitable for obese Ausgr grown dogs and sufficient weight reduction.

Table 1:

Composition (g / kg) and value-determining ingredients of the feed mixtures

Animal meal 100

Fishmeal 50

Feed yeast 100

Skimmed milk powder 50

Oatmeal 300

CCM silage ' ¹ 250

Minpralstoffmischung 10

Active ingredient premix 20

Lard 70

(in g / kg of original substance)

Dry substance (TS) 967

Raw axle 69

organic substance 898

Crude protein 225

Crude fat 150

Raw fiber 26

N-freio extractives 497

1) dry subvolume content of CCM-Sihigo - 627g / kg; 250g / kg feed mixture refers to a TSGfchalt of 850g / kg.

Claims (1)

Complete food for dogs based on carbohydrate-rich feed ingredients and conventional protein-rich animal feed, vegetable and animal oils, fats, vitamin and mineral mixtures, characterized in that as carbohydrate-rich feed ingredient corn com-spindle mixed silage (CCM silage) the feed mixture in an amount to 80% of the feed dry substance is mixed. Field of application of the invention The invention relates to a complete feed for dogs, which can be used for rearing and keeping and is characterized by particular salubriousness.