5. Conclusion In summary, data of the present study demonstrated that the dietary transition of goats from a forage-to a high-grain-diet resulted in the decrease of rumen fluid pH, which was however still higher than value established for subacute ruminal acidosis indicating that the abrupt change in diet did not cause the ruminal acidosis as clinical pathological entity. The three different cultureindependent methods used to describe the dietary influence on the caprine rumen bacterial diversity and quantity indicated the significant changes, but also the core microbiome stability. DGGE analysis showed the substantial animal-to-animal variation, but the clustering of the bacterial communities with respect to diets was evident. NGS analysis resulted in the very high number of uncultured bacteria, in the relatively stable proportion of the Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes found as the most dominant phyla and in the genus level differences mostly profound in the groups of unclassi- fied Bacteroidales and Ruminococcaceae increased in the concentrate-fed goats and in the Prevotella and Butyrivibrio increased in the forage-fed goats. High proportion of corn in goat diet however did not induce any serious disturbance of the ruminal bacterial ecosystem.