Ingredients for animal feed compositions
The present invention relates to ingredients for animal feed compositions for enhancing animal growth and/or animal health. The invention also relates to methods for producing such ingredients and feed compositions. The methods of the invention further allow improving the palatableness and/or digestibility of feed compositions. More specifically, the invention describes the use of a mix of Deinococcus or related bacteria and biomass as a supply of organic constituents in feed compositions.
1. A method of feeding an animal comprising providing to the animal a feedstuff composition comprising a Deinococcus bacterium, wherein the animal is poultry, fish or crustacean.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein said feedstuff composition contains amino acids.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein said feedstuff composition further comprises biomass being at least partially digested by said Deinococcus bacterium.
4. The method of claim 3 , wherein said biomass is a lignocellulosic biomass.
5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the lignocellulosic biomass is cereal bran, wheat bran, vegetal cattle cake, rapeseed cattle cake, soybean cattle cake, sugar cane and derivatives thereof, corn, sugarbeet, miscanthus , switch grass, hemp, poplar, willow sorghum, rice, soy, peanut, cotton, lupine, eucalyptus or oil palm.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the animal is fish.
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the animal is poultry.
8. The method of claim 1 , wherein the animal is crustacean.