Impact of commercial gut health interventions on caecal metagenome and broiler performance.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maintaining gut health is a persistent and unresolved challenge in the poultry industry. Given the critical role of gut health in chicken performance and welfare, there is a pressing need to identify effective gut health intervention (GHI) strategies to ensure optimal outcomes in poultry farming. In this study, across three broiler production cycles, we compared the metagenomes and performance of broilers provided with ionophores (as the control group) against birds subjected to five different GHI combinations involving vaccination, probiotics, prebiotics, essential oils, and reduction of ionophore use.

Results

Using a binning strategy, 84 (≥ 75% completeness, ≤ 5% contamination) metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from 118 caecal samples were recovered and annota

SUBMITTER: Pangga GM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11776324 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature