After a ban on use of antibiotics as growth promoters in farm animals in the EU in 2006, an interest in alternative products with antibacterial or anti-inflammatory activities has increased. In this s
Commercial broiler chickens were reared on either reused litter or fresh bedding material +/- litter acidifying amendment. On days 0, 7, 14, and 35, broiler ileal digesta, cecal content, and litter we
Mucosal contents of ileum and cecum of 7, 14, 21 and 42-day old broiler chickens was sequenced based on V3 hypervariable region of 16S rRNA using Illumina Miseq to investigate normal gut microbiota in
