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A note on the metabolism of ca, P, Mg, Na and K by pigs growing at a high ambient temperature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

C. W. Holmes  and
N. D. Grace
C. W. Holmes
Affiliation:
Massey University and Applied Biochemistry Division, DSIR, Palmerston North, New Zealand
N. D. Grace
Affiliation:
Massey University and Applied Biochemistry Division, DSIR, Palmerston North, New Zealand
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Summary

Two levels of feeding were offered at each of two air temperatures, 25° or 33°C, to pigs while they grew from 20 to 70 kg live weight; two pigs were subjected to each of the four treatments. Significant increases occurred in the urinary excretion of Ca and K by the two pigs fed on the higher level and exposed to 33°C. However these effects could not be related in an obvious way to the lameness which developed in the latter pigs.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , December 1975 , pp. 341 - 343
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1975

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