showed a trendp < 0.1
Early-life intervention with FMT-CS significantly increased the Chao1 estimator and ACE estimator of fecal microbiota at the age of 7 d ( p < 0.05) and 27 d ( p < 0.01) in comparison with those in control piglets, and showed a trend to increase the Shannon diversity index at the age of 27 d (0.05 < p < 0.1).