08/19 | General Article | Animal Nutrition
Nutritional Pro le Comparison of Cow Milk and Sow Milk for the Development of Milk Replacer to Early Weaned Piglets
K.Roopa, R.Karunakaran, H.Gopi, D.Balasubramanyam and L.RadhakrishnanDepartment of Animal Nutrition, Madras Veterinary College, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai - 600007, Tamil Nadu.
Published in the Indian Veterinary Journal May 2019 : 96 (5) - pages 9 to 10(Received: January, 2019, Accepted: February, 2019)
Abstract
The present study was conducted to find out the nutritional prole of the cow milk in comparison to sow milk for the development of milk replacer to early weaned piglets. Milk samples were collected from sow on 7th, 14th, 21st, 28th and 35th day of lactation and cow milk was collected randomly. The nutrient composition of cow milk and sow milk revealed that cow milk was less by 6.33 % of total solids, 0.1 % of total ash, 1.68 % of crude protein, 0.85 % of lactose, 1.51 % of fat and 2.91 % of SNF when compared to sow milk. The results indicated that nutritional prole of cow milk was lower than sow milk. It is concluded that while developing cow milk based milk replacer for piglets the decit nutrients have to be added to the cow milk before feeding.
Key Words: Sow, cow milk, nutritional pro le, piglet