Background Recently, in-feed medicinal zinc has been phased out in pig production in the
European Union. This makes updated knowledge about porcine post-weaning diarrhea …

Biochar, a carbon-rich product from the pyrolysis of biomass, is a potentially effective feed
additive to improve diet digestion and gut health; however, its effect on the horse digestive …

Simple Summary Synbiotics are often provided to horses receiving antibiotics to protect
against disturbances of gut microbioma, despite a lack of evidence for efficacy. The purpose …

Different energy sources are often used in horse diets to enhance health and performance.
Understanding how diet impacts the cecal and fecal microbiota is crucial for meeting the …

Background Digestive disorders are one of the main health problems in suckling piglets. The
correct visual identification of feces in suckling piglets is an important tool for the diagnosis …

There are currently no published data on the effects of fodder in horses. Eight Quarter Horse
mares were randomly assigned to one of two diets: control horses received 2% of their body …

Fibre is essential to maintain healthy gut; however, energy demands of performance horses
can be too high to be met by forages alone. Yeast may support the function of cellulolytic …

Despite the importance of swine intestinal health, there are no easy‐to‐use and cost‐
efficient methods to evaluate it under field conditions for sows. To provide some indication …

This paper describes the digestible and fermentative effects of total replacement of a
traditional diet (it supplies hay and concentrate separately) for a thermally processed …

Extensive epidemiological evidence has linked exercise intensity to gastric ulceration.
However, few experiments have been conducted to directly investigate this relationship …