Cervical scoliosis and torticollis: a novel skeletal anomaly in broiler chickens
Published: July 1, 2022
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Background For many years the commercial broiler industry has focused on genetic selection for economically important traits such as rapid gain of muscle mass, decreased time from hatch to market, and increased feed efficiency. Undoubtedly, this strategy has resulted in the development of a chicken genotype with superior growth characteristics, but history has shown that intensive genetic sele...
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Trouw Nutrition
13 de julio de 2022
Thanks, Dr. Andrew for sharing this article. I have always related this condition to bad vaccination practices. How can you discard this point? Sorry for my English, I am not a native speaker.
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