Involvement of molybdenum in feather growth |
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| Authors: | C G Payne |
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| Institution: | Poultry Husbandry Research Unit , University of Sydney , Werombi Road, Camden, New South Wales, 2570, Australia |
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| Abstract: | 1. A poor hatchability syndrome, characterised by a high incidence of weak chickens, with clubbed down and long ginger hairs, in commercial broiler breeding stock was investigated. 2. If the weak chick were given a single oral treatment of ammonium molybdate (40 μg Mo/chick at 1 d), there was a reduction in subsequent mortality in both sexes and an increase in the growth rate of feathers in males, but not in females. |
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