Project detail Title: Supplementing the immunoglobulin-free fraction of bovine colostral whey to the suckling piglet: effect on growth performances, intestinal physiology and morphology. Duration: 01/05/2009 - 30/04/2013 Researcher(s): Principal investigator:  Van Ginneken Chris Co-principal investigator:  Dewilde Sylvia Research Team(s): Applied veterinary morphology Abstract: Optimizing growth and health during the suckling period of piglets with impaired growth is an economic challenge and relevant for improving animal welfare. This projects investigates which subfractions of immunoglobulin-free bovine colostral whey could promote growth and health in suckling piglets by studying key-structures and functions in the small intestine both in vivo and in vitro at the macro- (nutritional and growth effects) and micro-level (effects on intestinal morphology and physiological parameters).-