Alison Leary

I. INTRODUCTIONRapid development of an appropriate microbiota within a chicken gut is critical for its ongoing gut health and immunity (Meijerink et al., 2020). In natural circumstances the hen would pass her microbiota onto the chick, but in commercial conditions where eggs are set and hatched in a sterile hatchery this transfer is not possible and microbiota development is often from sources suc ...

I. INTRODUCTION Antibiotic stewardship and the judicious use of antibiotics as treatment for specific disease occurrences, rather than using sub-therapeutic doses for growth promotion, are well established concepts within the Australian poultry industry (Alfirevich, 2018). Intensive production systems however, are prone to increased stressors and large scale production does not always meet the ind ...