The haybiome: Characterising the viable bacterial community profile of four different hays for horses following different pre-feeding regimens

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 11; p. e0242373
• Main Authors: Daniels, Simon, Hepworth, Jacob, Moore-Colyer, Meriel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 17.11.2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Animal Feed - analysis; Animal Feed - microbiology; Animals; Bacteria; Bacteria - genetics; Base Sequence - genetics; Bioinformatics; Biology and Life Sciences; Composition; Computational Biology - methods; Dental disorders; Deoxyribonucleic acid; Discriminant analysis; DNA; DNA fingerprinting; DNA, Bacterial - genetics; Drinking water; Ecology and Environmental Sciences; Feeding; Food and nutrition; Gram-negative bacteria; Hay; Health aspects; High temperature; High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing - methods; Horses; Medicine and Health Sciences; Metabolic pathways; Microbiota; Microbiota (Symbiotic organisms); Microbiota - genetics; Microorganisms; Phylogeny; Physical sciences; Poaceae - genetics; Poaceae - microbiology; Polymerase chain reaction; Production processes; Research and analysis methods; Respiratory diseases; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; rRNA 16S; Soaking; Submergence; Water; Wettability; Wetting; United Kingdom; United Kingdom > UK

Respirable dust in conserved forages can pose problems with equid respiratory health, thus soaking (W) and high temperature steaming (HTS) are employed to reduce the levels in hay. The aim of this study was to characterize the viable bacterial community profile of four hays from two different locati...