ANN 111: Principles of Animal Nutrition and Feed Technology (2+1)

DEFICIENCY - NUTRITIONAL CHONDRODYSTROPHY

• Manganese deficiency in breeding birds reduces hatchability and shell thickness, and causes head retraction in chicks, causes a condition called as nutritional chondrodystrophy which is characterized by the shortening of the bones of the wings and legs, shortening of the lower mandible leads to parrot beak condition