German's Swine Breeding and Growing-Finishing Feeds Contain Optimum Levels of Essential Vitamins To Help You Improve Performance and Returns. Vitamins in Swine Nutrition Minimum vitamin levels will help prevent deficiency conditions, but may result in sub-optimal animal per formance. On the other hand, Op timum Vitamin Nutrition is a concept which provides vitamin allowances to com pensate for many condi tions that may interfere with optimum animal per formance. itfamim Zone A toB Marginal vitamin levels those lower than require ments These may predis pose animals to deficieno T«tol«IUtotototoltolna(l Zone B to C This section in the chart shows requirements—mini mum vitamin levels in teed needed to prevent overt de ficiency symptoms but may not be sufficient tor optimal performance These include stress from confinement, disease or adverse environmental conditions; intensified pro duction for better gains and feed efficiency (which increases the animal’s de mand for many vitamins and also elevates stress); improved genetics and breeding, and reduced ab sorption of vitamins caus ed by diseases or parasites. Zone C to D Optimum vitamin levels Excess vitamin levels range allow animals to achieve from those which are safe their full genetic and per but uneconomical (D) to (ormsnce potentials levels of certain vitamins that can produce adverse effects (E) Do Your Swine Feeds Contain Optimum Levels Of Essential Vitamins To Help Conditions Increasi Vitamin Needs* Zone D to E •Total amount of vitamins Lancaster Farming, Saturday, February 24,1979 Produce Optimum Performance and Improved Dollar Returns? Vitamins are Hi Relative to Their Cost In addition to their positive effects on produc tion efficiency at all stages of the breeding-growing finishing cycle, supplemen tal vitamins are low in cost. They represent only about 2-3% of the total feed cost. ;h in Value 135
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