Microbial taxa in dust and excreta associated with the productive performance of commercial meat chicken flocks.
Yugal Raj BindariRobert J MooreThi Thu Hao VanStephen W Walkden-BrownPriscilla F GerberPublished in: Animal microbiome (2021)
Dust and excreta could be useful for investigating bacterial signatures associated with high and low performance in commercial poultry farms. Further studies on a larger number of farms are needed to determine if the bacterial signatures found in this study are reproducible.