Nutritional factors in broiler bone problems

Modern intensively-reared broiler strains have been selected over many generations primarily for fast growth of muscle tissues combined with good feed efficiency. But leg defects came to the forefront. For both broiler meat product quality and bird welfare it is therefore important to keep adequatelevels of vitamin D in the diet says Colin Whitehead. By Colin Whitehead When leg problems in broilers were increasing breeders started to pay more attention to skeletal characteristics in their sele