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Copper toxicity in housed lambs

Abstract

Copper toxicity among 170 lambs artificially reared indoors at High Mowthorpe NAAS Experimental Husbandry Farm is reported. Although only three lambs were lost it is not unreasonable to suggest that the liver copper levels of the lambs which were slaughtered would have been high and losses could have been much heavier had there been any further copper supplementation. Even a copper level of 20 ppm in lamb concentrates given to lambs reared artificially indoors is dangerous, and intakes of much less than 38 mg per lamb per day can be fatal if given of a prolonged period. 5 references, 1 table.
Publication Date:
Sep 27, 1969
Product Type:
Journal Article
Reference Number:
EDB-86-027562
Resource Relation:
Journal Name: Vet. Rec.; (United Kingdom); Journal Volume: 85
Subject:
63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; COPPER; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS; TOXICITY; BIOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION; LIVER; SHEEP; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMALS; BODY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DOMESTIC ANIMALS; ELEMENTS; EUROPE; GLANDS; MAMMALS; METALS; ORGANS; RUMINANTS; TRANSITION ELEMENTS; VERTEBRATES; WESTERN EUROPE; 560305* - Chemicals Metabolism & Toxicology- Vertebrates- (-1987)
OSTI ID:
6164905
Research Organizations:
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Leeds, England
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Journal ID: CODEN: VETRA
Submitting Site:
HEDB
Size:
Pages: 368-369
Announcement Date:
Feb 01, 1986

Citation Formats

Adamson, A H, Valks, D A, Appleton, M A, and Shaw, W B. Copper toxicity in housed lambs. United Kingdom: N. p., 1969. Web.
Adamson, A H, Valks, D A, Appleton, M A, & Shaw, W B. Copper toxicity in housed lambs. United Kingdom.
Adamson, A H, Valks, D A, Appleton, M A, and Shaw, W B. 1969. "Copper toxicity in housed lambs." United Kingdom.
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title = {Copper toxicity in housed lambs}
author = {Adamson, A H, Valks, D A, Appleton, M A, and Shaw, W B}
abstractNote = {Copper toxicity among 170 lambs artificially reared indoors at High Mowthorpe NAAS Experimental Husbandry Farm is reported. Although only three lambs were lost it is not unreasonable to suggest that the liver copper levels of the lambs which were slaughtered would have been high and losses could have been much heavier had there been any further copper supplementation. Even a copper level of 20 ppm in lamb concentrates given to lambs reared artificially indoors is dangerous, and intakes of much less than 38 mg per lamb per day can be fatal if given of a prolonged period. 5 references, 1 table.}
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