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vit c dosage for sick pigs

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Can someone please tell me a recommended dosage for supplementing vitamin c when pigs are sick.

Many thanks. :)
 
Sorry, I should just clarify that this would be in addition to eating veggies. My vet has recommended 30mg per pig but I wondered if I could go higher or not.
 
Piggies need 30-50mg a day of Vitamin C. If you look at http://www.guinealynx.com/diet_order-c.html this tells you the C content of veggies so you could subtract what they're eating from the total and see what's left. I don't think that it will harm them to go slightly over the daily recommendation - some of the human tablets have 2000% of the daily RDA for humans!
 
If you buy the human tablets I normally give a quarter diluted with some water. I think they will just get rid of any surplus vit c naturally anyway so you can't overdose them. That's what I have been told anyway. could be wrong :-\
 
Thanks. :) Yes, that was my thinking too - the RDA for humans is way under the dosages in the tablets. But then maybe the RDA for pigs is a more realistic one (given the size of pigs compared to humans!)
 
Sorry to highjack the post but could you confirm how much is good then Karen? I use a quarter of the soluble tables you buy in tubes? Is that OK?

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Laure
 
I don't know how strong they are so can't really say :) They don't need extra if they have a good diet, only when they're ill or for a specific reason. I use GTN tablet from Oxbow- half one straight to the back ofthe mouth >:D
 
Those soluble tablets are normally really strong - about 1000mg! The one I've got is Biocare drops - 4 drops is 30 mg.
 
I gave half of a 60mg tablet, popped it in the mouth onto the back teeth & let my piggy crunch it :)
 
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