The impact of early-life intervention on microbiota composition in free-range laying hens

Title
The impact of early-life intervention on microbiota composition in free-range laying hens
Publication Date
2018
Author(s)
Ruhnke, I
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5423-9306
Email: iruhnke@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:iruhnke
Campbell, D L M
Raj, R V
Suchodolski, J
Kheravii, S K
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8950-8841
Email: sqassim2@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:sqassim2
Wu, S-B
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1790-6015
Email: swu3@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:swu3
Type of document
Conference Publication
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of Sydney, Poultry Research Foundation
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/58896
Abstract

Laying hens need to maintain their health status, including their gastrointestinal health until at least 72 weeks of age. Gut microbiota composition is extremely important to gastrointestinal and overall health. Furthermore, the gut-brain axis enables interactions between the enteric microbiota, the enteric nervous system and the central nervous system (Dinan & Cryan,2017). The composition of gastrointestinal microbiota can be affected by animal behavior and vice versa (Neufeld et al., 2011" Berthoud, 2008). The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of early-life intervention on caecal microbiota composition in laying hens.
Link
link
Citation
Proceedings of the 29th Annual Australian Poultry Science Symposium, v.29, p. 233-233
Start page
233
End page
233

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