TY - JOUR
TI - The Onset of Ciliate Populations in Newborn Foals
AU - Egan, Catherine Elizabeth
AU - McEwan, Neil R.
AU - Snelling, Tim
TI - The Onset of Ciliate Populations in Newborn Foals
AB - The time of onset of survival of ciliate protozoa in the equine hindgut in new born foals was investigated. Daily faecal samples were collected from 6 new-born foals and studied under a microscope for examples of ciliates within the samples. The results of this study show that ciliates are first seen in faecal samples from the foal on day 5 post partum although these appeared to be voided and were assumed to be non-viable. However, by the following day the ciliates collected seen in the faecal samples appeared to be intact and were assumed to be viable. This observation is 5 days earlier than ciliates have previously been observed in faeces collected from the digestive tract of newborn foals.
VL - 2010
IS - Volume 49, Issue 2
PY - 2010
SN - 0065-1583
C1 - 1689-0027
SP - 145
EP - 147
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/acta-protozoologica/article/the-onset-of-ciliate-populations-in-newborn-foals
KW - Ciliates
KW - equine digestive tract
KW - colonisation