veterinary sciences Article
Outcome of an Experimental Study in Growing Turkeys Suspected of Having a Diet Related, Uncommon and Uncoordinated Gait Amr Abd El-Wahab 1 , Christian Visscher 2 , Christine Ratert 2 , Mareike Kölln 2 , Daniel Diephaus 3 , Andrease Beineke 4 and Josef Kamphues 2, * 1 2
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Department of Nutrition and Nutritional Deficiency Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura 35516, Egypt;
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[email protected] (M.K.) Tierarztpraxis Am Dorfteich, Cloppenburg 49661, Germany;
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Academic Editor: Patrick Butaye Received: 28 August 2017; Accepted: 28 September 2017; Published: 30 September 2017
Abstract: On the occasion of a clinical case on a turkey farm and based on the suspicion that the diet composition could be the cause, an eight-week diagnostic trial was performed with turkey poults (n = 54) divided into two groups (control and experimental). The levels of vitamin A in the starter and grower diets of the control group were 7168 and 5213 IU/kg diet, but
