Essential oils mix effect on chicks ileal and caecal microbiota modulation: a metagenomics sequencing approach.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Microbiota plays a pivotal role in promoting the health and wellbeing of poultry. Essential oils (EOs) serve as an alternative solution for modulating poultry microbiota. This study aimed to investigate, using amplicon sequencing, the effect of a complex and well-defined combination of EOs feed supplement on both ileal and caecal broiler microbiota, within the context of Salmonella and Campylobacter intestinal colonization.

Material and methods

For this experiment, 150-day-old Ross chicks were randomly allocated to two groups: T+ (feed supplementation with EO mix 500 g/t) and T- (non-supplemented). At day 7, 30 birds from each group were orally inoculated with 10⁶ CFU/bird of a Salmonella enteritidis and transferred to the second

SUBMITTER: Girard C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11025455 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature