Table 4.

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

Item	Treatment group1		SEM	P-value
	CON	SA
Colostrum
IgA, mg/mL	3.61b	5.25a	0.46	0.032
IgG, mg/mL	20.50b	27.10a	1.60	0.034
IgM, mg/mL	1.27	1.37	0.16	0.718
Day 21 of milk
IgA, mg/mL	0.32b	0.42a	0.03	0.038
IgG, mg/mL	1.05b	1.70a	0.16	0.020
IgM, mg/mL	0.12	0.13	0.01	0.582

IgA = immunoglobulin A; IgG = immunoglobulin G; IgM = immunoglobulin M; 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).