The effects of feeding prebiotics, antibiotics, and alternative proteins during the preweaning period to dairy calves on growth, health, and the gastrointestinal microbiota

Effect of supplementing sodium butyrate, phytogenic compounds and egg yolk antibodies in calf milk replacer containing probiotic bacteria on selected faecal bacteria in calves

“…Dietary SB supplementation was also shown to reduce GIT colonisation by E. coli in piglets (Xiong et al, 2016). However, it should be noted that not all studies have consistently observed the beneficial effects of SB supplementation in calf MR. Wolfswinkel (2017) reported an increased incidence of diarrhoea in calves fed MR with SB. In the study of Wood et al (2019), SB supplementation in MR was associated with a higher risk of calf mortality, but it was supplemented with B. subtilis, as in the current study.…”