The value of virginiamycin (Eskalin) as a feed additive for growing pigs in diets with or without a high copper supplement
- 1 April 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Animal Science
- Vol. 26 (2) , 151-155
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003356100039568
Abstract
In three trials, each involving 48 individually-fed pigs grown from 20 to 90 kg live weight, the value of virginiamycin as a performance-promoter either alone or together with 250 mg Cu/kg diet was examined. Both copper and virginiamycin on their own gave significant, although small, improvements in performance and the results suggested that there can be a degree of additive action between the two materials when both are added to the diet.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit: