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All About Feed: Microbial diversity for ruminants
October 7, 2020
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The gut plays a critical role in health and wellbeing and accommodates a vastly complex community of micro-organisms. Inoculation occurs immediately after birth, with diversity and complexity increasing until it has reached a relatively steady state. This diversity is crucial to the gut’s function as a protective barrier and provides resistance to colonisation of pathogenic organisms while having beneficial effects on the immune function.