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A note on copper sulphate in the diet of pigs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

G. Berek ,
L. Urbanyi  and
T. Lakatos
G. Berek
Affiliation:
Research Institute for Animal Husbandry, Budapest, Hungary
L. Urbanyi
Affiliation:
Research Institute for Animal Husbandry, Budapest, Hungary
T. Lakatos
Affiliation:
Research Institute for Animal Husbandry, Budapest, Hungary
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Braude (1965) has recently reviewed the literature on the subject of supplementation of rations for growing pigs with copper, and concluded that as much as 0·1% copper sulphate could be added to the feed without toxic effects, and that this increased growth rate by about 8·1% and improved efficiency of feed conversion by about 5·4%. Both these values are average responses from a very large number of experiments. Similar results have been reported from the Soviet Union by Volkopjalov, Lebedjeva, Spiridonova and Matuskova (1962).

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , August 1967 , pp. 421 - 424
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1967

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