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Table 2 Copper concentration in feed ingredientsa

From: Digestibility and metabolism of copper in diets for pigs and influence of dietary copper on growth performance, intestinal health, and overall immune status: a review

Feed ingredient

Average Cu content (as-fed basis), mg/kg

Corn, white

4.4

Corn, yellow

4.7

Rye

5.9

Oats

6.8

Barley

7.2

Oat groats

7.6

Wheat

7.8

Fish meal

8.0

Rice bran

9.0

Wheat germ

9.0

Millet, Japanese

9.1

Wheat middlings

12.1

Meat and bone meal

11.0

Blood meal

13.1

Flaxseed meal

16.2

Brewer’s dried grain

16.4

Wheat bran

16.4

Wheat gluten

17.2

Cottonseed meal

21.8

Linseed oil meal

21.8

Soybean

22.7

Meat meal

23.1

Corn gluten meal

35.1

Poultry meal

35.7

Distillers dried gains with solubles

38.4

  1. aAll values were adapted from O’Dell [101] and NRC [76]