Fig. 1.

Overall gut microbiota composition at the phylum level affected by probiotic supplementation. a). Microbial abundance (%) in the control flock. b). Microbial abundance (%) in the probiotic supplemented flock. For direct comparison between the control and probiotic supplemented groups, data obtained from the samples collected between day 1 and week 36 of flock age were analysed as a pool. For percent calculation of microbial abundance at phylum level, total sum scaling normalised but untransformed data obtained from Calypso software were visualised in Excel 2016 and the panel graphs were prepared in Graphpad prism v. 8.0.0