Preparing Newborn Pigs for Faster Weight Gains
By Ben Hardin, USDA Agricultural Research Service - Newborn pigs may get off to a better start if given a one-time injection of an anti- inflammatory agent used in veterinary and human medicine. In repeated small-scale tests, pigs treated with dexamethasone grew about 12 percent faster in their first 18 days of life than did other pigs.
18 June 2001
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