Mycotoxins affect bone structure and leg weakness

01-11-2006 | | |

Feed contaminated with Mycotoxins plays an important role in causing leg weakness in poultry. For this reason, controlling polar and nonpolar Mycotoxins with available strategies will undoubtedly lower the amount of leg weakness incidences.

Keywords: Mycotyoxins, tibial dyschondraplasia, Rickets, Articulat Gout, Aflotoxins, skeletal disorders, bone structure
 
Source: World Poultry magazine. Issue 22.11

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