Bovine Colostrum for Piglets: Can It Mitigate the Post-Weaning Growth Lag?

Piglet growth was not affected by the addition of cow colostrum to the creep or first nursery diets, according to J. Wu, J. DeNure, D.A. Gillis and A.D. Beaulieu of the Prairie Swine Centre in Canada. However, colostrum did increase the proportion of piglets identified as “eaters”.
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