Studies on factors affecting absorption of colostral immunoglobulins in newborn lambs.

ABTRACT Experimental studies were conducted on factors affecting absorption of immunoglobulins from colostrum by new born lambs. New born Odua and Balami lambs were either allowed to suckle or were removed from their dams before sucking and bottle fed pooled ewe to colostrum. The feeding of milk substitute before colostrums resulted in a significant (P 0.1) difference between the concentration in control lambs left with their dams after feeding of colostrums for “mothering” and in those separated from their dams after feeding of colostrums.