Extra iron for baby pigs

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2010-05-07T15:28:24Z

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Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service

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Ten mg. of iron per day fed orally 24 days in addition to 150 mg. injected when pigs were 3 days old did not significantly increase Hb of baby pigs. Neither did it increase average daily gain or weight-per-day-of-age at 32 days. We saw no symptoms of iron toxicity in treated pigs.

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Swine Industry Day 1975 is known as Swine Day, 1975

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Swine, Iron, Hemoglobin, Toxicity

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