Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Farm Animals

It was a surprise when we first found that our actives (CH4GUARD) reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the exhaled breath of ruminant farm animals.
But we soon realised that this was the result of the improved efficiency of digestion by the animals in the absence of methanogens and skatole-producing microorganisms. In their absence, more carbon was going to the animal's welfare than before the animals were given doses of our products.
The function of the rumen is to break down hard-to-digest plant material to smaller molecules that can pass through the gut wall to be further metabolised in the cells of the animals. These smaller molecules that should have been going into the animal's body to be converted into meat and/or milk, were previously being intercepted by methanogens and other fermentation microorganism for their own use. They robbed the animals to produce unwanted methane and skatole.  
It became obvious to us: if we were able to reduce these microorganisms then less methane and skatole would be produced, the animals would get more food, even without any increase in feed amounts, and the animals would be more productive. 
The amount of carbon dioxide in the breath was an indicator of the efficiency of metabolism - the less the better. Low carbon emissions showed that the carbon in the food the animal ate was going to make meat and milk, rather than methane and skatole. This accounts for the observed increases in farm productivity.