Effect of Source & Quantity of Dietary Vitamin D in Maternal & Creep Diets on Bone Metabolism & Growth in Piglets
Supplementation of the sow diet during pregnancy with 50µg/kg of either of the two vitamin D sources tested was adequate to meet the needs of the sow herself, the developing foetuses and for normal skeletal mineralisation and growth in her offspring, according to researchers based in Zurich, Switzerland.
13 July 2011
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