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Fermented feed regulates growth performance and the cecal microbiota community in geese
- Source :
- Poultry Science. 98:4673-4684
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2019.
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Abstract
- This study was designed to investigate the effects of fermented feed diets on the growth performance and cecal microbial community in geese, and to examine associations between the gut microbiota and growth performance. A total of 720 healthy, 1-day-old male SanHua geese were used for the 55-D experiment. Geese were randomly divided into 4 groups, each with 6 replicates of 30 geese. Groups were fed a basal diet supplemented with 0.0, 2.5, 5.0, or 7.5% fermented feed. The results showed that 7.5% fermented feed had an increasing trend in the body weight and average daily gain of the geese; however, there was no significant response to increasing dietary fermented feed level with regards to ADFI and FCR. In addition, compared with the control group, there was a higher abundance of bacteria in the phylum Bacteroidetes in the cecal samples of geese in the 7.5% fermented feed group (53.18% vs. 41.77%, P0.05), whereas the abundance of Firmicutes was lower in the 7.5% fermented feed group (36.30% vs. 44.13%, P0.05). At the genus level, the abundance of Bacteroides was increased by adding fermented feed to geese diets, whereas the abundances of Desulfovibrio, Phascolarctobacterium, Lachnospiraceae_uncultured, Ruminiclostridium, and Oscillospira were decreased. These results indicate that fermented feeds have an important effect on the cecal microflora composition of geese, and may affect host growth, nutritional status, and intestinal health.
- Subjects :
- Male
Gut flora
Random Allocation
Goose
Animal science
biology.animal
Geese
Animals
Microbiome
Cecum
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
biology
Lachnospiraceae
General Medicine
biology.organism_classification
Animal Feed
Diet
Gastrointestinal Microbiome
Dietary Supplements
Fermentation
Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Animal Science and Zoology
Composition (visual arts)
Bacteroides
Bacteria
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00325791
- Volume :
- 98
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Poultry Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....00c6a956995b69cbb0371c4ae3504030