Lynn Grooms
, 608-437-2827
Vitamin D may play a larger role in swine health than one might expect. Tom Crenshaw, animal science professor, and his students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have observed ties between vitamin D deficiency and lameness in pigs, and the vitamin deficiency may involve more serious health problems as well.
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