Abstract:Sci. 75: 603-610. The digestive utilization of minerals in Cu-and phytase-supplemented diets by weanling pigs was investigated in an experiment with a 3 x 2 factoial iurangement of treatments. Three levels of Cu (0, 60 and 120 *g kft as CuSOo'5HrO; and two levels of phytase activity (0 and 1500 units kg-l) were added to a corn-soybean meal basal diet. Seventy-two pigs (gilts:bar-rows, l:l) with an average initial weight of 9.7 kg received the six diets for 2l d, after which 36 of the pigs were used in an 8-d m… Show more
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