Claims
- 1. A cattle feed composition comprising (1) an edible vegetable ingredient; and (2) a rumen bypass animal feed supplement in friable granular form which consists essentially of the calcium salts of the following weight proportions of fatty acid constituents:
- ______________________________________ palmitic acid 20-55 oleic acid 25-50 linoleic acid 2-20 stearic acid 1-15 lauric acid 0-10______________________________________
- wherein the fatty acid calcium salt feed supplement is substantially free of glyceride ingredient.
- 2. A process for supplying fatty acid calcium salt to a ruminant animal which comprises feeding the animal a feed composition in accordance with claim 1.
- 3. A feed composition comprising (1) edible vegetable ingredient; (2) a rumen bypass animal feed supplement in friable granular form which consists essentially of the calcium salts of the following weight proportions of fatty acid constituents:
- ______________________________________ palmitic acid 20-55 oleic acid 25-50 linoleic acid 2-20 stearic acid 1-15 lauric acid 0-10______________________________________
- wherein the fatty acid calcium salt feed supplement is substantially free of glyceride ingredient; and (3) between about 0.05-20 weight percent of a biologically active ingredient, based on the weight of fatty acid calcium salt feed supplement.
- 4. A feed composition in accordance with claim 3 wherein the biologically active ingredient comprises at least one polypeptide.
- 5. A feed composition in accordance with claim 3 wherein the fatty acid calcium salt feed supplement is substantially free of odorant impurities.
- 6. A feed composition in accordance with claim 3 wherein the feed supplement has a fatty acid calcium salt content of at least 96 weight percent.
- 7. A feed composition in accordance with claim 3 wherein the fatty acid calcium salt feed supplement contains an organoleptic flavorant additive.
- 8. A process for supplying fatty acid calcium salt to a ruminant animal which comprises feeding the animal a feed composition in accordance with claim 3.
- 9. A feed composition in accordance with claim 3 wherein the biologically active ingredient comprises at least one aminoacid.
- 10. A feed composition in accordance with claim 3 wherein the biologically active ingredient is selected from the group consisting of lysine, methionine and analogs thereof.
- 11. A feed composition in accordance with claim 3 wherein the biologically active ingredient comprises whey.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/987,706, filed Dec. 9, 1992, now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 828,529, filed Jan. 29, 1992, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,212,325, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 761,235, filed Sep. 17, 1991.
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