Blood Gas Disturbances and Disproportionate Body Weight Distribution in Broilers With Wooden Breast

Blood Gas Disturbances and Disproportionate Body Weight Distribution in Broilers With Wooden Breast

Wooden breast syndrome is a widespread and economically important myopathy and vasculopathy of fast growing, commercial broiler chickens, primarily affecting birds with high feed efficiency and large breast muscle yield. To investigate potential systemic physiological differences between birds affec...

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Main Authors: Juniper A. Lake, Erin M. Brannick, Michael B. Papah, Cory Lousenberg, Sandra G. Velleman, Behnam Abasht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Physiology
Subjects:
wooden breast
white striping
broiler
pectoralis major muscle
myopathy
pulmonary phlebitis
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fphys.2020.00304/full

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