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Ingestion of iron in sow's faeces by piglets reared in farrowing crates with slotted floors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2007

P. T. Gleed  and
B. F. Sansom
P. T. Gleed
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Council, Institute for Research on Animal Diseases, Compton, Newbury, Berkshire RG16 0NN
B. F. Sansom
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Council, Institute for Research on Animal Diseases, Compton, Newbury, Berkshire RG16 0NN
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Abstract

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1. Two sows were housed in farrowing crates with slotted floors and fed daily with approximately 200 μCi 198Au from 3 d before farrowing until their piglets were 21 d old.

2. The sows' faeces became radioactive but their milk remained free of radioactivity. The piglets' mean (±SE) whole-body radioactivity was equivalent to 8·5 ± 0·9 g (range 3·8–15·5 g) of faeces. This is probably a measure of their daily intake of faeces.

3. The possibility of using this natural coprophagia to prevent piglet anaemia has been demonstrated on two commercial piggeries by feeding the sows a diet containing 2000 mg Fe/kg.

Type
Paper on General Nutrition
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 113 - 117
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1982

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