Two trials were conducted to determine the effects of irradiation of spray-dried blood meal and animal plasma on nursery pig
growth performance. In Exp. 1, irradiation
of spray-dried blood meal resulted in improved ADG and F/G and tended to increase
ADFI for the 14 d experiment. The majority
of the increase in growth performance occurred during the first week of the trial. In Exp. 2, ADG and ADFI were increased from
d 0 to 10 for pigs fed irradiated spray-dried
animal plasma compared to pigs fed regular
spray-dried animal plasma. In addition, we
observed differences in growth performance
between different sources of spray-dried
plasma used in this experiment.
