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UNDERWOOD1, discussing the nutritional significance of trace elements, states “zinc deficiency has never been observed in man or in farm stock, under either naturally occurring or experimental conditions. It seems very unlikely that such a deficiency could ever arise in grazing or stall fed sheep or cattle, because of the normal high content of zinc in plant materials”. Symptoms indicating zinc deficiency conditioned by high dietary calcium have, however, been reported in Pigs
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LEGG, S., SEARS, L. Zinc Sulphate Treatment of Parakeratosis in Cattle. Nature 186, 1061–1062 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/1861061a0
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