Giving broilers a firmer leg to stand on. From: Agricultural Research | Date: May 1, 1998| Author: Weaver, Tara | COPYRIGHT 1998 U.S. Government Printing Office. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Poultry physiologist Narayan Rath has been studying tibial dyschondroplasia (TD), a metabolic bone disorder, to develop methods that can reduce the bone-related problems of the poultry industry. Working for the Agricultural Research Service Poultry Production and Safety Research Unit, Rath has found that TD hampers cartilage replacement by bone, causing the tibia to be soft and susceptible to deformities and breakage. Since replacement of cartilage tissue by new cells and bone tissue is preve...

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