Table 5. Influence of various milk by-products levels in weaned pig diet on IgA and IgG of weaned pigs1)
Criteria | Treatments2) | SEM | p-value |
NM | LM | MM | HM | Linear | Quadratic |
IgA (mg/mL) |
2 weeks | 0.32 | 0.25 | 0.27 | 0.17 | 0.025 | 0.127 | 0.799 |
5 weeks | 0.61 | 0.89 | 0.73 | 0.79 | 0.084 | 0.681 | 0.327 |
IgG (mg/mL) |
2 weeks | 1.87 | 2.00 | 1.95 | 1.78 | 0.052 | 0.622 | 0.220 |
5 weeks | 3.06 | 3.24 | 3.36 | 3.40 | 0.080 | 0.109 | 0.661 |
Least squares means of 6 observations per treatment.
NM, almost no milk by-products, 5% / 0%; LM, lower milk by-products, 10% / 5%; MM, middle milk by-products, 20% / 10%; HM, high milk by-products, 30% / 15%.
IgA, immunoglobulin A; IgG, immunoglobulin G.