NL2024865B1 - Feed composition for early-life chicken - Google Patents
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Abstract
A feed composition for early life chicken is provided, comprising sprouted cress seeds, a prebiotic and medium-chain fatty acids. The sprouted cress seeds may include sprouted seeds from garden cress, water cress and bitter cress. The prebiotic may, for example be lactose, fructooligosaccharide and/or inulin. Medium-chain fatty acids may be C6, C8, C10 and C12 fatty acids. The feed composition may further include a gelling agent. The feed composition may further include water and be provided in the form of a gelled composition. The gelled feed composition allows for application on the eggs, prior to hatching, ensuring access to exogenous feed and water during the first weeks of life.
Description
Title: Feed composition for early-life chicken Background of the invention Broiler chickens start, after hatching, their life inside an incubator without any exogenous feed and water access, before being sorted and transported to a grow-out facility. During the first days after hatching, important organs, such as the gastro- intestinal tract and the immune system start to develop, a process that continues for several weeks after hatching.
Hence, broiler chickens undergo a number of important changes during the perinatal period, including the first week of life. Although broiler chickens have a residual yolk that may provide some nutritional support during the first week of life, availability of good quality nutrition in the period immediately after hatch is believed to have an important impact on subsequent growth performance and health.
Furthermore, it is believed that the physiological status of the chicken at hatch determines the immediate nutritional requirements of the chicken. That same physiological status also sets boundaries with respect to the type and kind of feed ingredients that the chicken can digest and metabolize. Indeed, immature development of the gastro-intestinal tract is associated with a suboptimal digestive capacity for particular nutrients. In addition, immature development of the immune system may expose the broiler chicken to a higher risk for diseases and mortality during the first week of life (David Lamot, PhD thesis Wageningen University 31 March 2017 DOI:
10.18174/403639).
Consequently, it is generally accepted that high quality nutrition in the early stages of life of chicken is of the utmost importance to promote development of the chick, promote growth, prevent mortality and morbidity, reduce the need of antibiotics, and/or promote slaughter weight.
In light of this, new products, compositions, methods and uses for feeding early life poultry, in particular chicken would be highly desirable. In particular, there is a clear need in the art for reliable, efficient and reproducible products, compositions, methods and uses that allow to be used in feeding early life poultry, including chicken. Accordingly, the technical problem underlying the present invention can be seen in the provision of such products, compositions, methods and uses for complying with any of the aforementioned needs. The technical problem is solved by the embodiments characterized in the claims and herein below. Description Detailed Description It is contemplated that any method, use or composition described herein can be implemented with respect to any other method, use or composition described herein. Embodiments discussed in the context of methods, use and/or compositions of the invention may be employed with respect to any other method, use or composition described herein. Thus, an embodiment pertaining to one method, use or composition may be applied to other methods, uses and compositions of the invention as well.
As embodied and broadly described herein, the present invention is directed to the surprising finding that a feed composition as claimed herein may suitably be used as an early life feed composition, in particular for chicken. The feed composition according to the invention may be used on feeding chicken during early life and thereby, surprisingly promote development of the chick, promote growth, prevent mortality and morbidity, reduce the need of antibiotics, and/or promote slaughter weight.
Without wishing to be bound by this theory, the inventors believe that the desirable effects of the combination of ingredients in the feed composition according to the invention is due to the fact that the combination may stimulate or enhance the naturally suboptimal digestive capacity of the animal due to immature development of the gastro-intestinal tract of, for example, broiler chickens in early life. At the same time it is believed that the feed composition according to the invention is, due to the combination of ingredients in the composition according to the invention, palatable to the animals, and is helpful in providing sufficient water to the animal.
Accordingly, in a first aspect, the present invention provides for a feed composition comprising sprouted cress seeds, a prebiotic and medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs).
In an embodiment, the feed composition according to the invention is substantially free of animal ingredients.
In an embodiment, the feed composition according to the invention is provided as the sole nutrition to the animal. In other words, the feed composition according to the invention is in such embodiment not provided together, or at the same time, with any other feed composition.
In an embodiment, the feed composition according to the invention is provided, independently, or together with a further feed composition.
As described above, the feed composition according to the invention comprises sprouted cress seeds.
The skilled person is well familiar with sprouted cress seeds.
The term “sprouted” as used herein refers to the germination of a plant from a seed after a period of dormancy and is well-known to the skilled person.
For example, a sprouted seed is the early stage of development following seed germination up to and including the 2-leaf stage.
The term “cress seeds” as used herein refers to seeds of the garden cress (Lepidium sativum), water cress (Nasturtium officinale} and/or bitter cress (Cardamine hirsuta). The sprouted cress seeds may be included in the composition according to the invention, for example, as fresh sprouted cress seeds or as cress seeds that have sprouted and that have been treated to hamper further development of the sprouted cress seed into a plant.
For example, the sprouted cress seeds may be provided in the feed composition according to the invention as fresh, dried, fixed, intact or non-intact (e.g. milled and/or minced) sprouted cress seeds.
In addition to the sprouted cress seed, the feed composition according to the invention further comprises a prebiotic.
The term “prebiotic” as used herein is well- known to the skilled person and relates to non-digestible feed ingredients that are metabolized by specific beneficial members of intestinal microbiota and thereby provide health benefits for the host.
The beneficial intestinal microbes ferment these non-digestible dietary substances and obtain their survival energy from degrading the prebiotics.
As a result of this, prebiotics can selectively influence gut microbiota.
The beneficial gut microbiota affects intestinal functions, such as metabolism and integrity of the intestine and suppress pathogens.
Typical beneficial microbiota include various members of the Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus genera (see e.g.
Davani-Davari et al.Foods. 2019 Mar; 8(3): 92.). The feed composition according to the invention is not in particular limited to a particular prebiotic or combination of prebiotic.
According to the invention, the feed composition may comprise, for example, one or more prebiotics, for example, selected from fructans, inulin-type fructans (inulin), fructooligosaccharides, mannanoligosaccharides, galactooligosaccharides, trans-galactooligosaccharides, xylooligosaccharides, soybean meal oligosaccharides, resistant starch, polydextrose,
pectic oligosaccharides, and lactose. Within the context of the current invention lactose is to be understood to be a prebiotic in the feed composition according to the invention.
In a preferred embodiment the feed composition according to the invention comprises, as a prebiotic, lactose, inulin or fructooligosaccharide. In a preferred embodiment the feed composition according to the invention comprises, as a prebiotic, lactose, inulin and fructooligosaccharide. In some embodiments the feed composition according to the invention may e.g. comprise sprouted cress seeds, lactose and MCFA. In some other embodiments, the feed composition according to the invention may e.g. comprise sprouted cress seeds, inulin, and MCFA. In even further embodiments, the feed composition may e.g. comprise sprouted cress seeds, inulin, lactose and MCFA.
Within the context of the current invention, fructooligosaccharide (FOS) is defined as a short-chained fructooligosaccharides with a degree of polymerization of less than 10.
Within the context of the current invention, inulin is defined as a long-chained fructooligosaccharide with a degree of polymerization of 10 or more and up to 100, preferably up to 60.
Suitable sources of e.g. the preferred prebiotics for use in the feed compositions according to the invention, i.e. lactose, FOS and inulin, are commercially available.
In addition to the sprouted cress seeds and the prebiotic as described above, the composition according to the invention further comprises medium-chain fatty acids.
The term “medium-chain fatty acids” (MCFAs) as used herein is well-known to the skilled person and refers to saturated and/or unsaturated fatty acids with a chain length of between, and including 6 to 12 carbon atoms. Non-limiting examples of MCFA that may be included in the feed composition according to the invention include, one or more of caproic acid or hexanoic acid, caprylic acid or octanoic acid, capric acid or decanoic acid, and lauric acid or dodecanoic acid.
The MCFAs in the feed composition according to the invention may be provided in any suitable form, for example in the form of free fatty acids, as fatty acids salts, or in the form of mono-, di- or triglycerides. For example, MCFAs in the feed composition according to the invention may be provided in the form of triglycerides, consisting at least partly of MCFAs as defined above, in the form of, or obtained from, coconut oil.
In a preferred embodiment, the feed composition according to the invention comprises at least C10 fatty acids.
It will be understood by the skilled person that the sprouted cress seeds, the prebiotics and the MCFA in the composition according to the invention can be included 5 in the feed composition according to the invention in any suitable amount or relative amount (i.e. relative to each other, to the total composition, or to any other ingredient that may be included in the composition according to the invention). The skilled person is well-equipped and understands how to prepare the feed compositions according to the invention, and taking account of the disclosure herein.
According to an embodiment, the feed composition of the invention may further comprise sprouted barley and/or brewer's spent grain.
The term “barley” as used herein is well-known to the skilled person and refers to a cereal grain of the genus Hordeum vulgare. Sprouted barley thus relates to the sprouting of a seed/grain barley after a period of dormancy up to and including the 2- leaf stage.
The term “brewer’s spent grain” (BSG) as used herein is also well-known to the skilled person and refers to draff obtained as a mostly solid residue after wort production in the brewing process. BSG is considered a saccharification residue of brewer's malt (optionally containing rice, corn grits, corn starch, etc. as secondary starting materials) produced as a by-product in production of beer. Wort is the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer. BSG is normally composed of barley malt (i.e. sprouted barley) grain husks in combination with parts of the pericarp and seed coat layers of the barley.
It is believed that in particular the combination of the sprouted cress seeds and the sprouted barley and/or brewer's spent grain in the feed composition according to the invention is beneficial for the development and growth of chicks during the first days, week or weeks after hatching from the egg.
According to an embodiment, the feed composition according to the invention may further comprise a gelling agent, preferably a polysaccharide gelling agent, preferably selected from the group consisting of agar, pectin and arabic gum. The term “gelling agent” as referred herein is well-known to the skilled person and refers to a substance which can increase the viscosity of a liquid without substantially changing its other properties. The gelling agent, in the presence of water, can provide for a gelled feed composition, which is a highly viscous liquid, semiliquid, semisolid or solid state.
The type of gelling agent in the feed composition according to the invention is not particularly limited.
For example, pectin, agar, arabic gum, xanthum gum, tragacanth gum, karaya gum, ghatti gum, guar gum, gellan gum, locust bean gum, alginic acid or its salt {e.g., sodiumalginate), carrageenan, gelatin, dextrin, starches (corn starch, rice starch, wheat starch, potato starch, pueraria starch, tapioca starch, carboxymethyl starch, hydroxypropyl starch, hydroxyethyl starch, chemically cross- linked starch, a -starch, and so on), celluloses (hydroxypropylmethyl cellulose, carboxymethyl cellulose, methyl cellulose, methylethyl cellulose, hydroxypropyl cellulose, crystalline cellulose and so on), polyvinylalcohol, polyvinylpyrrolidone, polyethylene glycol (macrogol),or mannans can be used singly or in an appropriate combination.
However, in a preferred embodiment the gelling agent is selected from the group consisting of agar, pectin and arabic gum.
These gelling agents are well-known to the skilled person.
Once water is added to the feed composition according to the invention, and comprising a gelling agent, the feed composition, in a preferred embodiment, forms a gel (i.e. a gelled feed composition). The advantage of the preparation of a dry feed composition, i.e. without any added water, is that it has a longer shelf life and that less storage space is needed.
However, by adding water to the feed composition according to the invention, the feed composition according to the invention, e.g. in the form of a gel, in addition to the other ingredients, provides an easy and readable available source of water to the animal.
As mentioned, the feed composition according to the invention may be provided as a dry composition or as a composition to which (exogenous) water is already provided, and in the presence of a gelling agent, would thus be in the form of a gel.
The term “agar” as used herein is well known to the skilled person and refers to a gelling agent obtained from e.g. red algae and sea weeds such as red seaweeds belonging to the Rhodophyceae.
In the natural state, agar occurs as structural carbohydrate in the cell walls of such agarophytes algae, probably existing in the form of its calcium salt or a mixture of calcium and magnesium salts.
It is a complex mixture of polysaccharides composed of two major fractions — agarose, a neutral polymer, and agaro-pectin, a charged, sulfated polymer. (Powdered) agar is commercially available from various sources for inclusion in feeds and foods as gelling agent.
The term “pectin” as used herein is also well-known to the skilled person and refers to a structural acidic hetero-polysaccharides contained in the primary cell walls of terrestrial plants. Its main component is galacturonic acid, a sugar acid derived from galactose. Pectin gelling agents exists in various commercial available forms.
The term “Arabic gum” as used herein is well-known to the skilled person and refers to a natural gum consisting of the hardened sap of various species of the acacia tree. The mixture of polysaccharides and glycoproteins gives Arabic gum its gelling properties. Agar, pectin and Arabic gum are commercially available for use as a gelling agent.
In a further embodiment, the feed composition according to the invention may further comprise (exogenous, i.e. in addition to any water that may be contained in any of the other ingredients in the composition according to the invention) water. By adding an appropriate amount of water to the feed composition, and that includes a gelling agent, a gelled feed composition may be obtained. A gelled feed composition is especially advantageous because it provides both feed and water. It is believed by the current inventor that by including the water directly in the feed composition according to the invention, the water is readily (bio)available to the animal. Further, a feed composition according to the invention in the form of a gel allows for application of the feed on the eggs, prior to hatching, which ensures access to exogenous feed and water during the first weeks of life.
The feed composition according to the invention may be provided in any suitable form and is not in particular limited to a specific form. It may, for example, be provided in the form of food pellets or grain of various sizes, or in the form of a gel in various viscosities. The term “food pellet” as used herein is well-known to the skilled person and refers to small, ball- or tube-shaped (or any other shape) pieces of homogenized feed of a composition according to the invention. It may also be provided in the form of an aqueous composition (gelled or not gelled) or in the form of small particulates. In one embodiment, the feed composition according to the invention is a gelled feed composition.
In an embodiment, the feed composition according to the invention preferably comprises (weight percentage referring to the percentage of the total weight of the food composition according to the invention): -the sprouted cress seeds in an amount of 0.1 — 10.0 weight%, preferably between 0.2 — 6.0 weight%,
-the prebiotic in an amount of 0.1 — 10.0 weight%, preferably between 0.2 — 6.0 weight%, -the MCFAs in an amount of 0.1 — 10.0 weight%, preferably between 0.2 — 6.0 weight%, -the gelling agent in an amount of 0 - 20.0 weight%, preferably between 0.1 —
4.5 weight%, more preferable between 0.4 — 2.0 weight%, -the sprouted barely in an amount of O — 10.0 weight%, preferably between 0.2 — 6.0 weight%, more preferable between 3 and 4 weight%, -the brewer’s spent grain in an amount of 0 — 10.0 weight%, preferably between
0.2 — 6.0 weight%, and/or -the water in an amount of 0 — 80 weight%, preferably between 20 — 80 weight%, more preferable between 60 — 80 weight®%.
In case of a feed composition according to the invention that does not comprise water and a gelling agent, the feed composition preferably comprises (weight percentage referring to the percentage of the total weight of the food composition according to the invention): -the sprouted cress seeds in an amount of 0.1 — 50.0 weight%, preferably between 0.2 — 35 weight%, -the prebiotic in an amount of 0.1 — 50.0 weight%, preferably between 0.2 — 35 weight%, more preferable between 0.2 and 0.5 weight%, -the MCFAs in an amount of 0.1 — 50.0 weight%, preferably between 0.2 — 35 weight%, more preferable between 3.0 and 4.0 weight%, -the sprouted barely in an amount of O — 50.0 weight%, preferably between 0.2 — 35 weight%, more preferable between 3.0 and 4.0 weight%, and -the brewer’s spent grain in an amount of 0 — 50.0 weight%, preferably between
0.2 — 35 weight%.
In an embodiment, the weight ratio between the sprouted cress and the prebiotic is between 0.1:50 and 50:0.1, preferably between 0.1:25 and 25:0.1, even more preferable between 0.1:10 and 10:0.1. In an embodiment the weight ratio between the sprouted cress and the MCFA is between 0.1:50 and 50:0.1, preferably between 0.1:25 and 25:0.1, even more preferable between 0.1:10 and 10:0.1. In an embodiment, the weight ratio between the prebiotic and the MCFA is between 0.1:50 and 50:0.1, preferably between 0.1:25 and 25:0.1, even more preferable between
0.1:10 and 10:0.1. In an embodiment, the weight ratio between the sprouted cress seeds and water is between 1:100 and 100:1, preferable between 1:50 and 50:1. In an embodiment, the feed composition according to the invention comprises at least 2, 5, 8, 12, 10, 20 times more in weight water than sprouted cress seeds. In case the feed composition according to the invention comprises water the pH is preferably between 6 and 8.
In addition to the various ingredients described above for inclusion in the feed composition according to the invention, the feed composition may further comprise additional ingredients such as additional proteins, lipids, fatty acids, oils, vitamins and minerals. In addition, the feed composition according to the invention may also comprise drugs, medicines, and/or antibiotics.
Further, the feed composition according to the invention may also comprise additional particles, wherein the particles have a diameter of 0.005 — 0.1 mm, for example from grains and the like.
In a second aspect, the invention relates to a method of feeding a poultry animal, in particular a chick. The method comprises providing the feed composition according to the invention to a poultry animal, preferably for at least one day, more preferably for at least one week during the first three weeks after hatching of the poultry animal from the egg.
In an embodiment, the method of feeding a poultry animal according to the invention can further comprise providing the feed composition according to the invention to the unhatched egg, preferably three, two or one days before the egg hatches, and preferably in the form of a gel (a gelled composition) as disclosed herein.
In an embodiment, the method of feeding a poultry animal with the feed composition according to the invention can further comprise providing the feed composition according to the invention during transport of the poultry animal.
It will be understood that all details, embodiments and preferences discussed with respect to one aspect of embodiment of the invention is likewise applicable to any other aspect or embodiment of the invention and that there is therefore not need to detail all such details, embodiments and preferences for all aspect separately.
Having now generally described the invention, the same will be more readily understood through reference to the following examples which is provided by way of illustration and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
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Example 1 A feed composition was prepared by mixing the following ingredients: - sprouted cress seeds, in particular from water cress, in an amount of 50 weight%, - a prebiotic, in particular lactose, in an amount of 30 weight% - MCFAs, in particular C10 and C12, in an amount of 20 weight% Example 2 A feed composition was prepared by mixing the following ingredients: - sprouted cress seeds, in particular from water cress, in an amount of 30 weight% - a prebiotic, in particular FOS, in an amount of 20 weight% - MCFAs, in particular C10 and C12, in an amount of 20 weight% - sprouted barley, in an amount of 30 weight%
Example 3 A feed composition was prepared by mixing the following ingredients: - sprouted cress seeds, in particular from water cress, in an amount of 40 weight% - a prebiotic, in particular inulin and lactose, in an amount of 30 weight% - MCFAs, in particular C10 and C12, in an amount of 20 weight% - a gelling agent, in particular agar, in an amount of 10 weight% Example 4 Feed compositions were prepared by mixing the following ingredients, resulting in a gelled composition: |: - sprouted cress seeds, in particular from garden cress, in an amount of 5 weight% - a prebiotic, in particular FOS, in an amount of 4 weight% - MCFAs, in particular C6, in an amount of 8 weight% - a gelling agent, in particular arabic gum, in an amount of 5 weight% - water in an amount of 78 weight%
IN: - sprouted cress seeds, in particular from bitter cress, in an amount of 10 weight% - a prebiotic, in particular FOS and lactose, in an amount of 5 weight% - MCFAs, in particular C8, in an amount of 2 weight% - a gelling agent, in particular pectin, in an amount of 10 weight% - water in an amount of 73 weight% II: - sprouted cress seeds, in particular from garden cress, in an amount of 5 weight% - a prebiotic, in particular a combination of lactose and FOS/inulin, in an amount of 10 weight% - MCFAs, in particular C10, in an amount of 5 weight% - a gelling agent, in particular agar, in an amount of 10 weight% - water in an amount of 70 weight% Example 5 The various compositions described in Example 4 were provided, in the form of a gel, to eggs shortly before hatching and/or to chicks in the first weeks after hatching from the egg, 2 — 10 gram per day per chick, during 3 — 7 days. Results show that the feed composition according to the inventions was consumed well and leads to desirable development and growth of the chick.
Having now fully described this invention, it will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the same can be performed within a wide range of equivalent parameters, concentrations, and conditions without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention and without undue experimentation.
While this invention has been described in connection with specific embodiments thereof, it will be understood that it is capable of further modifications. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the inventions following, in general, the principles of the invention and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the invention pertains and as may be applied to the essential features hereinbefore set forth as follows in the scope of the appended claims.
All references cited herein, including journal articles or abstracts, published or corresponding patent applications, patents, or any other references, are entirely incorporated by reference herein, including all data, tables, figures, and text presented in the cited references. Additionally, the entire contents of the references cited within the references cited herein are also entirely incorporated by references.
Reference to known method steps, conventional methods steps, known methods or conventional methods is not in any way an admission that any aspect, description or embodiment of the present invention is disclosed, taught or suggested in the relevant art.
The foregoing description of the specific embodiments will so fully reveal the general nature of the invention that others can, by applying knowledge within the skill of the art (including the contents of the references cited herein), readily modify and/or adapt for various applications such specific embodiments, without undue experimentation, without departing from the general concept of the present invention. Therefore, such adaptations and modifications are intended to be within the meaning and range of equivalents of the disclosed embodiments, based on the teaching and guidance presented herein. It is to be understood that the phraseology or terminology herein is for the purpose of description and not of limitation, such that the terminology or phraseology of the present specification is to be interpreted by the skilled artisan in light of the teachings and guidance presented herein, in combination with the knowledge of one of ordinary skill in the art.
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