US 12,317,906 B2
Feed compositions and methods for inhibiting focal ulcerative dermatitis
Theodore Karnezos, Colchester, VT (US); Diana Ayala, Ballwin, MO (US); Daniel Grum, Labadie, MO (US); Benjamin R. Trible, New Haven, MO (US); Nicholas Evans, Harrisonburg, VA (US); Emily Kimminau, Williamsburg, VA (US); and Joseph Dart, Brussels, WI (US)
Assigned to Purina Animal Nutrition LLC, Arden Hills, MN (US)
Filed by Purina Animal Nutrition LLC, Arden Hills, MN (US)
Filed on Dec. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/546,193.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/123,288, filed on Dec. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0174984 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. A23K 10/18 (2016.01); A23K 50/75 (2016.01)
CPC A23K 10/18 (2016.05) [A23K 50/75 (2016.05)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of inhibiting focal ulcerative dermatitis in poultry, the method comprising:
feeding poultry diagnosed with focal ulcerative dermatitis a feed product comprising a base feed and a direct-fed microbial composition in an amount effective to inhibit focal ulcerative dermatitis,
wherein the amount effective to inhibit focal ulcerative dermatitis ranges from about 25,000 CFUs per gram of base feed to about 1.5 million Colony Forming Units per gram of base feed, and
wherein the direct-fed microbial composition comprises two or more distinct strains of Bacillus pumilus.