During the Animine Satellite Symposium at this week’s Digestive Physiology of Pigs (DPP) conference, Tommy Shipp, PhD, will address the main challenges and benefits of supplementing copper as a growth promoter in pig diets while examining the benefits of the monovalent copper source CoRouge®
Due to copper’s therapeutic effect on nursery pig performance, interest has grown in its use in grow-finish as well as potential in sows. Dr. Shipp will cover several challenges including nutritional and therapeutic effects, environmental concerns, and everything in between while highlighting copper’s role as a potential solution.
