Stress in finisher pigs? Lithium additives may help

After several years of study, Russian scientists have designed feed additives based on lithium. This may help control stress in finisher pigs. Developing lithium-based feed additives has taken years of study by scientists from the All-Russia Research and Development Institute of Livestock Physiology, Biochemistry, and Feeding in the Kaluga region of Russia. Konstantin Ostrenko, head of the institute’s laboratory of immunobiotechnology and microbiology, explained that in 2020, lithium ascorb