Contact with adult hens affects the composition of skin and respiratory tract microbiota in newly hatched chicks

Contact with adult hens affects the composition of skin and respiratory tract microbiota in newly hatched chicks

ABSTRACT: Chickens in commercial production are hatched in hatcheries without any contact with their parents and colonization of their skin and respiratory tract is therefore dependent on environmental sources only. However, since chickens evolved to be hatched in nests, in this study we evaluated t...

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Main Authors: Marcela Faldynova, Hana Prikrylova, Alena Sebkova, Jiri Volf, Daniela Karasova, Magdalena Crhanova, Vladimir Babak, Ivan Rychlik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-02-01
Series:Poultry Science
Subjects:
chicken
skin
trachea
caecum
respiratory tract microbiota
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032579123008210

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