Publication Date:
1977-02-01
Description:
SUMMARYIn group and individual feeding experiments of 98 days duration, a total of 96 Large White x Landrace 9-week-old pigs were fed diets (containing 0–09 mg selenium/kg) based on 85% of barley (containing 3 mg δ-α-tocopherol/kg), which had been stored aerobically for 1 year, with 0 (basal), 10, 20, 40, 80 or 160 mg/kg of synthetic δ-α-tocopherol added. In both experiments the tocopherol supplementation significantly improved growth rates over those obtained from the basal diet. Serum creatine phosphokinase and aspartate aminotransferase activities were not significantly affected.
Print ISSN:
0021-8596
Electronic ISSN:
1469-5146
Topics:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition
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