Table 3.

Concentration of goat and pig IgG of piglets’ serum across the different experimental treatments.

	Treatment 1			SEM	p-Value
Item	C	PC	GC
Goat IgG ( mg/mL)
12 h	0.51 b	0.40 b	8.11 a	1.398	0.014
10 d	<0.01	<0.01	0.13	0.023	0.116
Pig IgG (mg/mL)
12 h	66.24 a	26.06 b	1.41 c	2.338	<0.001
10 d	35.39 a	23.09 b	10.00 c	1.665	<0.001
20 d	16.99	19.88	11.47	1.553	0.124

¹ C: Control group where piglets were kept with their own sows and allowed to suckle pig colostrum as normal. PC: Piglets were removed from the sows after birth and received porcine colostrum only for the first 12 h of life. GC: Piglets were removed from the sows after birth and received goat colostrum only for the first 12 h of life. a–c: Means in the same row bearing the same letter are not significantly different (p > 0.05).