A memorial item is provided which comprises a mixture of animal feed and cremated human remains in the form of ashes. The mixture is edible to animals, and is intended to allow a deceased to return to nature in a natural manner. The memorial feed item may be formed as a block for feed items such as a bird feeder or mineral lick, or may be pelletized for other animal feed.

Beneficial effects of Bidens pilosa on gut microflora and animal health. A composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of Bidens pilosa extract or an active compound isolated from the Bidens pilosa extract for use in promoting beneficial gut microbiota and/or inhibiting pathogenic gut microbiota in an animal in need thereof is disclosed. In one embodiment, the composition is for use in promoting growth performance or increasing body weight in an animal in need thereof. In another embodiment, the composition is for use in an animal that is not afflicted with coccidiosis.

Methods involve feeding young livestock animals a starter feed, where the starter feed comprises an amount of soluble mannan oligosaccharides. The young animals may be chicks. In response to ingesting the starter feed, the young animals may increase a rate of weight gain and increase feed efficiency.

Methods, apparatuses, and systems for screening, analyzing and selecting microorganisms from complex heterogeneous communities, predicting and identifying functional relationships and interactions thereof, synthesizing microbial ensembles based thereon, and forming and administering endomicrobial feed supplements are disclosed. Methods for identifying and determining the absolute cell count of microorganism types and strains, along with identifying the network relationships between active microorganisms and environmental parameters, are also disclosed.

The present invention is a suet making kit and method for forming suet plugs from a birdwatchers own customized suet mixture. With the instant invention suet plug manufacturing kit, suet mixtures may be shaped and sized to fit various cavity sizes and cavity shapes on a plurality of already existing different bird feeders. The kit provides the tools for making a feed suet plug of a predetermined shape, having a length dimension and a length-wise axis. The tools include a at least one ramrod having two pistons and a plurality of mold sets each having a cross-section with a substantially similar cross-section as a ramrod piston. A kit is selected so that the cross-sectional configuration of the feed suet plug made with the kit corresponds generally in size and shape to the cross-sectional configuration of the birdwatchers existing bird feeder.

The present invention is a suet making kit and method for forming suet plugs from a birdwatchers own customized suet mixture. With the instant invention suet plug manufacturing kit, suet mixtures may be shaped and sized to fit various cavity sizes and cavity shapes on a plurality of already existing different bird feeders. The kit provides the tools for making a feed suet plug of a predetermined shape, having a length dimension and a length-wise axis. The tools include a at least one ramrod having two pistons and a plurality of mold sets each having a cross-section with a substantially similar cross-section as a ramrod piston. A kit is selected so that the cross-sectional configuration of the feed suet plug made with the kit corresponds generally in size and shape to the cross-sectional configuration of the birdwatchers existing bird feeder.

The invention relates to nutritional compositions comprising lactose.calcium salt co-crystals and to the use of these co-crystals for preparing nutritional compositions, as carrier, filler or stabilizer, for accelerating lactose dissolution as well as for efficient calcium fortification of compositions. Furthermore, the present invention is directed to a process for preparing such lactose.calciumsalt co-crystals and nutritional compositions comprising such.

A method for restoring the sensitivity of antibiotic resistant bacteria to antibiotics and a method for reducing the expression of hilA gene in animals. In particular, the method includes the step of introducing a fermented product into the diet of an animal. Certain components of the fermented product interact with the bacteria within the animal such that the method produces the beneficial effects of reducing the expression of the hilA gene and also restores the sensitivity of antibiotic resistant bacteria to antibiotics.

A method for restoring the sensitivity of antibiotic resistant bacteria to antibiotics and a method for reducing the expression of hilA gene in animals. In particular, the method includes the step of introducing a fermented product into the diet of an animal. Certain components of the fermented product interact with the bacteria within the animal such that the method produces the beneficial effects of reducing the expression of the hilA gene and also restores the sensitivity of antibiotic resistant bacteria to antibiotics.

Disclosed herein is a method for promoting reduction of heat stress in animals, as well as a composition for use in the disclosed method. The composition comprises a glucan, silica, mineral clay, mannan, and optionally an endoglucanohydrolase, and may be administered to an animal that is susceptible to or suffers from heat stress.