What is a Normal Equine Microbiome? We Hope to Find Out.
The Purina Equine Research team has recently launched the MQ Equine project aimed at answering the question of what a normal, healthy equine microbiome looks like. We have been collecting samples from horses all around the country and we need your help to build our dataset. The goal of this project is to collect samples from horses across the nation and determine how different factors such as feed, age, breed, living conditions, diet, and other factors influence the microbiome of the horse.
You Can Help in Three Simple Steps:
- Sign up and receive a Purina® microbiome kit to quickly and easily collect a microbiome sample from your horse utilizing a fecal swab.
- Complete a short online survey to provide the critical metadata necessary to develop our database.
- Mail the swab back to us in the return envelope (don’t worry, we’ll cover the postage).
