Effects of particle size of ground alfalfa hay on caecal bacteria and archaea populations of rabbits

This work was aimed to investigate the effects of the different particle size of ground alfalfa hay on caecal microbial and archeal communities of rabbits. One hundred-twenty New Zealand rabbits (950.3 ± 8.82 g) were allocated into four treatments, with five replicates in each treatment and six rabb...

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Main Authors: Mei Yuan, Siqiang Liu, Zhisheng Wang, Lizhi Wang, Bai Xue, Huawei Zou, Gang Tian, Jingyi Cai, Quanhui Peng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2019-10-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/7910.pdf