The haybiome: Characterising the viable bacterial community profile of four different hays for horses following different pre-feeding regimens

• Simon Daniels ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Daniels, Jacob Hepworth, Meriel Moore-Colyer

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Simon.daniels@rau.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Equine Management and Science, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5270-0218

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• Jacob Hepworth ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Daniels, Jacob Hepworth, Meriel Moore-Colyer

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation School of Equine Management and Science, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

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• Meriel Moore-Colyer

  Contributed equally to this work with: Simon Daniels, Jacob Hepworth, Meriel Moore-Colyer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Equine Management and Science, Royal Agricultural University, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

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