Supplementing oat hulls to the diet of suckling piglets altered their intestinal tract and colonic microbiota development.

The article presents a study which investigates the effects of fine and coarse oat hulls (OH) on gastrointestinal development in suckling piglets. It shares the result of the study showing the diet did not affect stomach pH or digestibility of substrates, increased ileal villi length particularly in the piglets fed a finely ground OH diet, and exhibits similar digestive capacity and small intestinal barrier across diets.