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Feed additives to diets supplemented with copper for growing pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2009

R. Braude  and
Zena D. Hosking
R. Braude
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AT
Zena D. Hosking
Affiliation:
National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Reading RG2 9AT
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Summary

Results of a co-ordinated trial carried out at 19 centres and involving 632 growing pigs indicated that the performance of pigs receiving diets supplemented with copper sulphate, at 250 mg Cu/kg diet, can be improved by the addition to the diet of 10 mg/kg of ‘Payzone’ or 50, reducing to 20 mg/kg, of ‘Grofas’. Zinc bacitracin, 50 mg/kg diet, was not effective. There were no marked effects on carcass quality.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 85 , Issue 2 , October 1975 , pp. 263 - 266
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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