ArticleFrontiers in veterinary science2025
Long term effect of feeding spray dried plasma during the nursery on subsequent performance and health status to market weight.
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- Plasma Functional Proteins and Peptides: A Sustainable Nutritional Alternative to Support Piglet Performance and Health.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
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Abstract
Spray-dried plasma (SDP) is widely used in nursery pig diets due to nutritional and functional benefits, including improved feed intake, gut health, and immune modulation. Although its short-term effects are well documented, its long-term impact on growth and health until market weight remains unclear. We evaluated the effects of increasing SDP inclusion levels during the nursery phase on subsequent performance, health status, and carcass traits in pigs. A total of 300 weaned piglets (PIC® Camborough × AG 415) were randomly allocated to five dietary treatments with cumulative SDP intakes, differing in cumulative SDP intake: control (CON), 0 g SDP; low (L-SDP), 85 g; medium (M-SDP), 180 g; high (H-SDP), 340 g; and very high (VH-SDP), 610 g. Pigs were monitored across nursery, growing, and finishing phases. During the nursery, SDP inclusion had no effect on average daily feed intake (ADFI), average daily gain (ADG), feed conversion rate (FCR), or final body weight (FBW). However, pigs receiving SDP diets showed reduced diarrhea severity (
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