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

Table 3 Growth performance of pigs fed diets containing 0 or 150 mg Cu per kg from Cu hydroxychloride. Average of 7 experiments^a

Item	Diet		SEM	P-value
Item	Control	Control + Cu^b	SEM	P-value
d 0 to 14
Initial body weight, kg	9.641	9.629	1.552	0.745
ADG^c, kg	0.319	0.376	0.082	0.002
ADFI^c, kg	0.590	0.611	0.149	0.058
G:F^c	0.557	0.636	0.046	0.015
Final body weight, kg	15.415	16.223	2.947	0.004
d 14 to 28
ADG, kg	0.596	0.625	0.072	0.044
ADFI, kg	1.029	1.018	0.144	0.846
G:F	0.595	0.621	0.024	0.286
Final body weight, kg	22.675	23.857	4.111	0.001
d 0 to 28
ADG, kg	0.458	0.498	0.021	< 0.001
ADFI, kg	0.807	0.814	0.154	0.817
G:F	0.589	0.623	0.026	0.046

^aExperiments included from [123,124,125,126,127,128]
^bThe diet containing added Cu was fortified with 150 mg/kg of Cu from Cu hydroxychloride (IntelliBond C^II; Micronutrients USA; Indianapolis, IN)
^cADG Average daily gain, ADFI Average daily feed intake, G:F Gain to feed ratio

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