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The Use of SprayDried Animal Plasma to Mitigate Negative Effects of Deoxynivalenol (DON) in Late Nursery Pigs (2012)
Posted in: Nutrition, Pork Insight Articles, Prairie Swine Centre by admin on May 2, 2017
Grain infected with Fusarium fungi is a widespread problem in Western Canada. A common mycotoxin is deoxynivalenol or DON, low levels of DON in the diet reduce feed intake and Agriculture Canada recommends swine diets not contain more than 1 ppm DON.
This study was to determine if adding sprayed-dried animal plasma (SDAP) and/or activated clays (binder) to DON contaminated diets would mitigate the effect of DON during the nursery phase of production.
Inclusion of SDAP improved ADFI and alleviated the negative effects of DON. In this experiment, SDAP was more effective than the clay binder at alleviating the negative effects of DON. Thus it can be concluded that SDAP animal plasma should be added to nursery diets if DON contamination is determined or suspected