Description:
Overview of Technology
This technology introduces the benefit of the lipid producing Enterobacter sp. bacterium as an additive to livestock feed or water which, when consumed, produces a supplemental energy source for animals.
Background
The cost of livestock feed attributes the largest economic investment in livestock care, aside from the investment in the animal. This technology introduces the benefit of the Enterobacter sp. bacterium as an additive to livestock feed or water which, when consumed, produces a supplemental energy source for animals. The bacteria’s unique property of lipid production provides an additional source of energy to animals during periods of limited feed or stress, where animals are more prone to disease. Elevated energy levels produced by this technology correlate with increases in feed efficiency, weight gain, and disease protection as well as decreases in food intake and overall feed cost.
Supplementing the animal’s diet with this microbe can increase the animal’s resistance to disease during times when they are prone to infections. The addition of this microorganism can allow for increased body weight gain and feed efficiency while limiting the intake of animals could result in a decrease in feed cost, which are the largest economic investment within livestock, aside from the animal.
This invention differs from previous art as it is focused upon a novel isolate to increase the circulating lipids, including triglycerides in serum of livestock and that this supply, which when given at the appropriate time can enhance immune protection against pathogens. Bacterium is proposed to behave as a typical probiotic, meaning that it is able to adhere to intestinal epithelial cells and compete for colonization of pathogens. This is novel as probiotics currently used have been shown to decrease serum triglyceride levels.
Description of Technology
MSU researchers have recently isolated a bacterium known as Enterobacter cloacae JD6301 as one that can be used as a feed supplement for animals or human health during times of physiological stress or as a supplement energy source. This bacterium was found to produce large amounts of triglycerides.
In addition, supplementing the diet/water supply with a mutant for capable of producing extracellular lipids can result in an increase in circulating triacylgycerides and will therefore provide an additional energy source to stressed animals or animals on limited feed, thus providing increased protection against disease at the time when they are more prone to being exposed.
Benefits
Supplementing the diet of livestock with lipids can increase the energy availability of animals, thus providing an additional source of energy to animals during periods of limited feed or stress.
Applications
This product can be used to decrease the amount of feed to animals due to this supplemental diet alternative, which also promotes increased energy availability of animals, making it more economically and practically efficient than current options.
Opportunity
Livestock or feed/nutritional production industries would thoroughly benefit from this product.
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The product could provide a means to increase the resistance of weanling swine (other animals during periods of stress) an alternative energy source which could in turn relate to increased viability during periods where a majority of income loss is observed by farmers.
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The microbe could also be fed as a supplementation to livestock as a means to decrease the amount of feed needed to achieve body growth. This invention is different from the inclusion of probiotics as the microbe used in this invention specifically provides lipids to the animals and has been shown to increase the circulating triglycerides in swine.