Beneficial dietary fibre in laying hens

The digestive tract of poultry is not comparable with ruminants, so what would be the sense of feeding dietary fibre? The answer is that poultry also depend on having a balanced microbiota in the hindgut. To maintain eubiosis in the large intestine, it is necessary to provide fermentable dietary fibre as a nutritional basis and energy source for the gut bacteria. Until a few years ago, the issue of dietary fibre attracted little, if any, interest in the field of poultry nutrition. On top of wh