JP2980422B2 - Horse feed - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a horse feed, and more particularly to a horse feed mixed with oligosaccharides.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, horse feed has been a solid feed made from hay such as alfalfa, hay cube, timothy, and Italian ryegrass as a rough feed source. Feed containing yeast, wheat germ, rice bran lees, rice bran, soybean lees, and vitamins and minerals as trace nutrients has been used, and the growth effect has been improved.

However, when a horse is bred, bred, and maintained, a horse-specific illness called so-called colic often occurs in breeding management. For example,
Chronic stagnation of the digestive tract due to the habit
Intestinal torsion, excessive ingestion of indigestible substances, constipation and the like are mentioned. Among them, constipation, so-called constipation colic, is said to be the most common, but it is not always clear.

[0004] However, once the disease occurs, the mortality rate is extremely high. In addition, even if it recovers easily, it becomes easy to become addictive,
The burden on horse breeding managers is by no means small, and there is a strong demand among breeding officials for this improvement. The colic referred to here often develops suddenly, regardless of the stage of growth of the horse, regardless of sex, and in most cases sudden loss of appetite,
It is often found due to unwellness, unnatural sweating without conditions such as exercise or temperature. The characteristic symptom is a remarkable stagnation of intestinal peristalsis, but it is accompanied by severe pain, and the affected horse often shows severe agony.

[0005] At present, there are only treatments for abdominal massage, pulling exercise and enema to physically promote peristalsis along with the use of an intestinal peristalsis promoter. In addition, when no symptomatic therapeutic effect is exhibited, death often occurs within several hours to within a day. Although the incidence and mortality are not always clear, in the United States, the incidence of obstruction was 35% and the mortality was 25%.
% And torsion are 21% and 76%, respectively.
Conservatively, it is expected to reach 30-40% incidence and nearly 10% mortality. As to why this disease develops, so far this disease shows a kind of syndromic tendency, and so far the death or the causal relationship of such death has not been clarified at all.

On the other hand, it is known that livestock such as chickens, cows, pigs, etc. and guinea pigs contain fructooligosaccharides for the purpose of preventing diarrhea and promoting growth, and are bred with feed (Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 60-34134). JP-A-63-84452
No., no use for horse feed is known.

[0007] In horse feed, it is generally known to blend a raw material containing a large amount of a fiber source such as alfalfa meal or hay cube. However, if a raw material containing these fibers is used in a certain amount or more, the cost becomes high, and it is often difficult to solidify the raw material due to production technology. Furthermore, when trying to use a high-calorie diet in order to improve the performance during the breeding or growing season, there is a problem that it is practically difficult to use these fibrous raw materials having relatively low calories compared to cereals and the like. It had been. It is also said that if the content of energy is easily increased, that is, if a feed containing a large amount of cereals is given to a horse, colic is likely to occur relatively frequently.

[0008]

Under such circumstances, it is presently desired to develop a feed capable of preventing colic in horses, and the present invention provides a feed for horses having these effects. Is provided.

[0009]

According to the present invention, as a result of various studies on the fiber content of feed materials in order to develop a horse feed as described above, fructooligosaccharides, isomaltooligosaccharides, xylooligosaccharides, inulooligosaccharides, soybean oligosaccharides, The present inventors have found that the addition of oligosaccharides such as lactulose can prevent equine colic or reduce the incidence thereof.

[0010] That is, the present invention is a feed for horses characterized by being mixed with an oligosaccharide, and its purpose is to prevent the onset of colic which is peculiar to horses or to reduce the incidence of colic. To provide a feed for horses that can.

The oligosaccharides used in the present invention are fructooligosaccharides, maltooligosaccharides, cyclodextrins, shiro oligosaccharides, xylo-oligosaccharides, inulooligosaccharides, maltosyl sucrose, lactulose, galacto-oligosaccharides,
And isomaltulose and raffinose. These oligosaccharides are produced by the action of enzymes,
Alternatively, an isomerized product by a chemical reaction may be used, and a paste-like product having a high water content may be used, or a powdered product using dextrin, silicic acid, or the like may be used.

These oligosaccharides may be mixed alone, or two or more selected oligosaccharides may be used in combination. In addition, the mixing ratio of the oligosaccharide to be mixed into the feed raw material is at least ineffective, and if it is too high, the nutritional balance of the whole feed is disrupted. It is desirable to mix the range,
Particularly preferably, it is in the range of 0.5 to 5%.

[0013] As a feed material for horses to be mixed with oligosaccharides, for example, cereals such as corn, milo, barley, wheat, rye, oat; animal raw materials such as fish meal, meat meal; defatted soybean, yeast, defatted rice bran , Corn gluten meal, alfalfa meal, Italian ryegrass, flour, wheat germ, bran, and other plant raw materials; vitamins; minerals; and others, which can be appropriately selected and used.

As a means for mixing the oligosaccharide into the feed material, it may be mixed at an appropriate step in the production process of the horse feed, for example, by mixing and mixing simultaneously with the above-mentioned feed material. . In addition, since these saccharides are usually circulated as a liquid, they can be mixed into the feed mixture using a liquid addition device, or can be mixed before being adsorbed on a powdered base material.

The horse feed of the present invention is, for example, powdery, granular,
It can be in the form of pellets, crumbles or any other suitable shape, but preferably in the form of pellets or crumbles.

[0016]

EXAMPLES Raw materials having the feed composition shown in Table 1 were crushed and mixed, and then pelletized using a 10 mm die using a pellet machine. Horse feeds A, B, C, D, E, F, and G and control feeds were prepared. I got The fructooligosaccharide has a water content of about 25%, a solid content of 75%, and a fructooligosaccharide in the solid content of 4%.
5% was used. Lactulose having a water content of about 30%, a solid content of 70%, and a lactulose in the solid content of 75% was used.

[0017]

[Table 1]

Next, 40 habitual colic horses moored at the equestrian club, ranch, and equestrian club of the university were selected and assigned to each of the control plots and the A to G plots.
In this allocation, consideration was given to the balance in consideration of age, amount of exercise, degree of colic, and the like. The above-mentioned horse feed was fed to each section as a concentrated feed, and hay and fresh grass such as timothy, hay cube, Italian ryegrass, wild grass, etc., which are conventionally used, were given as cut grass or throwing grass. The test feed and roughage were left to each breeder's method, but the feed was generally about 0.5 to 1% of the body weight of the concentrated feed and 1.5% of the roughage was equivalent to hay.
About 2%.

The test period was one year, and the frequency of recurrence of onset of colic during that period was compared. The recurrence rate of colic during the test period is as shown in Table 2.

[0020]

[Table 2]

The horse feed of the present invention was found to be effective in preventing or reducing the onset of colic in horses. In addition, the horses fed the feed for horses of the present invention showed clearly more so-called coins, which appeared in coats that guessed the health status of the horses, than the horses in the control group, and showed good health and hair. It was determined to be glossy.

[0022]

The feed for horses of the present invention, when used as a solid feed such as pellets, has an effect such as being a feed having an appropriate hardness, and is capable of preventing colic which occurs regularly in horses. Even if it occurs, there is an effect that the incidence rate is extremely remarkably suppressed. In addition, it is also effective in improving the horse's health condition and hair gloss, and the effect of raising the breeding results is extremely good. Such effects were not obtained with the conventional feed raw material alone. Things.

Claims (1)

(57) [Claims] 1. A feed for preventing colic disease and improving health in horses, wherein the feed contains fructooligosaccharides.