Figure 5.

Correlation between average daily gain (ADG) and Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes (F/B; ■ ) ratio, and acetate/propionate (A/P; ●  ) ratios (P < 0.05) in meat goats fed various forage diets (n = 10). For the rumen bacterial community analysis, 2 pooled DNA samples per treatment were created by combining equal amounts of isolated DNA samples (5 µL each). This pooled sample was analyzed for bacterial diversity using a bTEFAP sequencing PCR method. Data obtained from Min et al. (2014b, 2015), Wright et al. (2016), and current study.