Jiayu Ma, Xiangshu Piao, Shad Mahfuz, Shenfei Long et al.
The mammalian gut is inhabited by a massive and complicated microbial community, in which the host achieves a stable symbiotic environment through the interdependence, coordination, reciprocal constraints and participation in an immune response. The interaction between the host gut and the microbiot...
Jiayu Ma, Jian Wang, Shad Mahfuz, Shenfei Long et al.
Background: Organic acid as a green feed additive is increasingly favoured by enterprises and scholars, but little emphasis has been placed on the effect of organic acids on broiler meat quality. Methods: A total of 192 male chicks (one-day-old, weighted 48.40 ± 0.64 g) were selected to investigate ...
Shenfei Long, Tengfei He, Sung Woo Kim, Qinghui Shang et al.
This study aimed to investigate the effects of dietary LY or LY combined with ZnO supplementation on performance and gut health in nursery pigs. 192 Duroc × Landrace × Yorkshire piglets (weaned on d 32 of the age with 9.2 ± 1.7 kg BW) were allocated into four treatments with eight replicate pens, si...
Shad Mahfuz, Shenfei Long, Xiangshu Piao
SUMMARYSupplementing broiler diets with medicinal mushrooms is considered an effective alternative to prophylactic antibiotics. Feeding certain mushrooms may have beneficial effects on gut health in broilers, whereby trials have shown weight gain was increased about 5.2% when feeding 5% of the Heric...
Tengfei He, Jiayu Ma, Shad Mahfuz, Yuhui Zheng et al.
Abstract BACKGROUND This experiment was to investigate the effect of dietary live yeast (LY, 1 × 10 10 CFU g −1 ) supplementation on serum metabolic parameters, meat quality as well as antioxidant enzyme activity of transported broilers. A total of 192 one‐day‐old broilers were randomly assigned to ...