All species, including horses, suffer from alterations that increase intestinal permeability.
These alterations, also known as “leaky gut,” may lead to severe disease as the normal …

One-day-old broilers were randomly allocated to five treatment groups: basal diet and orally
administered sterile saline (negative control, n-control); basal diet challenged with E. coli …

Dietary fibre is an important nutrient present both in roughage and concentrates for horses.
On the one hand, it plays a key role in processes related to the motility of the gastrointestinal …

Alpha mannose-oligosaccharide (MOS) prebiotics are widely deployed in animal agriculture
as immunomodulators as well as to enhance growth and gut health. Their mode of action is …

A previous study suggested that addition of fructo‐oligosaccharides (FOS) to the diet
improved nitrogen (N) utilization and decreased acid detergent fiber (ADF) digestibility in …

Gastrointestinal disease is the number one killer of horses. Little is known about the
maintenance of microbes in the equine hindgut and how to distinguish a healthy gut in a live …

Animal guts contain dense, complex, and dynamic microbial communities that may not be
merely a collection of passenger microorganisms, but rather active players in vertebrate …

The primary objectives of the following experiments were to: 1) determine the impact of a
direct-fed microbial (DFM) blend on digestibility and microbial populations on horses fed low …

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of prebiotic fructooligosaccharide (FOS)
supplementation on the development of Mangalarga Marchador suckling foals. Sixteen …

Abruptly increasing concentrate in the ration of horses results in altered cecal dynamics
which can culminate in digestive distress. Nine Quarter horses previously fitted with cecal …