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Show Pigs Need Copper, Iron Milk Is deficient In copper and Iron, and when pigs consume nothing noth-ing but milk, they do not get a sufficient suffi-cient amount of these constituents to maintain the normal hemoglobin content of their blood. Then they lose their vigor, become anemic, Inactive In-active and listless, and are very likely like-ly to be trampled and crushed by the sow. Some forms of so-called thumps In young pigs, which some years ago was supposed to be caused by lack of exercise, are also the result of lack of Iron and copper cop-per In the milk of the sow. |