Pure Rumen Bypass Fat Rumen by pass fat is specially made for high yielding dairy ruminants (animals with 4 stomachs) such as cows, goats and sheeps. Due to high requirement of energy to produce more milk and to recover from calving stress (needed to get the animal to lactate), there is a need to provide a diet of highly intense energy feed. In addition to this, ruminants have a very specific digestive system that would not tolerate the presence of oil (triglycerides + glycerol) in the 1st stomach or rumen. And hence this energy feed must be able to stay inert to be digested in the later part of the stomach. AS demand for higher productivity increases, farmers of dairy cows are increasingly faced with the need to supplement energy sources that could not longer be assuaged by the feeding of more dry matter. Moreover, in the balance of economics, the cheapest energy source based on calorimetric contribution has to be derived from oils & fats. However the feeding of more oils & fats wiflinvariably cause more harm than good because oils & fats break down in the rumen, into fatty acids. These same fatty acids will then be subjected to bio-hydrogenation processes that will inhibit microbial activities in the same rumen. This disruption will lead a variety of problems that reduce the health of the animal such as: • Reduce appetite • Slow recovery after calving • Low milk-yield • Fertility problems • Ketosis, Acidosis • Death If rumen activities are so crucial, then energy supplements via oils & fats will have to be modified in a way that it by-passes the rumen before it could be absorbed. By pass fat will allow the modern high milk-yielding cows and buffaloes the much needed energy to stage a recovery after calving and since rumen activities were not affected, nutrients absorption from dry matters intake is aiso optimized. The by pass fat stays inert in the rumen and then passes on through to the abomasums where the relative acidity condition there will naturally break dow
