Grazing and Supplementation of Dietary Yeast Probiotics Shape the Gut Microbiota and Improve the Immunity of Black Fattening Goats (Capra hircus).

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to investigate the effects of different feeding modes on the growth performance, gut microbiota, and immunity of Black Fattening Goat (Capra hircus). A total of 30 goats were grouped in three groups by their feeding modes (pasture grazing group, PG; barn feeding group, BF; barn feeding + probiotics, BF + P; n = 10) and the study was performed for 114 days. After a 2-week adaptation period, the first growth performance test was conducted, and the blood and fecal samplings (day 0) were collected on January 17, 2020, while the second and third test and samplings were conducted on days 53 and 100 of feeding. The species-composition of fecal microbiota was analyzed by 16S ribosomal RNA gene-sequencing using PacBio single molecule real time (SMRT) sequencing techno

SUBMITTER: Emu Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8416523 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature