Table 2.

Effect of dietary sodium acetate (SA) supplementation on yield and composition of colostrum and milk in sows.

Item	Treatment group1		SEM	P-value
	CON	SA
Average piglet colostrum intake on d 1, g	444.00b	497.77a	12.34	0.025
Colostrum yield for 24 h, kg/d	5.46b	6.68a	0.28	0.028
Total milk yield, kg	200.72b	216.52a	3.94	0.044
Colostrum composition, %
Fat	4.04b	4.77a	0.24	0.039
CP	6.98b	7.86a	0.15	<0.001
Lactose	3.34b	3.66a	0.07	0.012
SNF	18.56b	20.94a	0.39	<0.001
Milk on d 21 composition, %
Fat	6.96b	7.46a	0.14	0.015
CP	4.60	4.58	0.02	0.539
Lactose	6.51	6.48	0.04	0.665
SNF	11.98	11.93	0.07	0.604

CP = crude protein; SNF = solids-not-fat; SEM = standard error of the mean.

^a,b Different letters indicate significant differences between the 2 data.

¹CON, sows were fed a base diet; SA, sows were fed a basal diet supplemented with 0.1% sodium acetate (n = 6).