ArticleAnimal microbiome2021
Microbial taxa in dust and excreta associated with the productive performance of commercial meat chicken flocks.
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- Daily occupational exposure in swine farm alters human skin microbiota and antibiotic resistome.iMeta · 2024Article
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- Productive Performance and Cecum Microbiota Analysis of Broiler Chickens Supplemented with β-Mannanases and Bacteriophages-A Pilot Study.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Centennial Review: Factors affecting the chicken gastrointestinal microbial composition and their association with gut health and productive performance.Poultry science · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundA major focus of research on the gut microbiota of poultry has been to define signatures of a healthy gut and identify microbiota components that correlate with feed conversion. However, there is a high variation in individual gut microbiota profiles and their association with performance. Population level samples such as dust and pooled excreta could be useful to investigate bacterial signatures associated with productivity at the flock-level. This study was designed to investigate the bacterial signatures of high and low-performing commercial meat chicken farms in dust and pooled excreta samples. Poultry house dust and fresh pooled excreta were collected at days 7, 14, 21, 28 and 35 of age from 8 farms of two Australian integrator companies and 389 samples assessed by 16S ribosomal RNA gene amplicon sequencing. The farms were ranked as low (n = 4) or high performers (n = 4) based on feed conversion rate corrected by body weight.
resultsPermutational analysis of variance based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarities using abundance data for bacterial community structure results showed that company explained the highest variation in the bacterial community structure in excreta (R
conclusionsDust and excreta could be useful for investigating bacterial signatures associated with high and low performance in commercial poultry farms. Further studies on a larger number of farms are needed to determine if the bacterial signatures found in this study are reproducible.
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