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Show Vitamin D Will Prevent Development of Rickets Like the old fallacy about locking the stable after the horse is stolen, treating calves for rickets after they have them is not the same as preventing pre-venting the disease. A nutritional disease, rickets are caused by a deficiency of vitamin D in the diet The animal is unable to store sufficient mineral In the bones, which thus become soft. The bones bend under the weight of the animal, ani-mal, causing bowed legs, knock knees, roached back, low loin, drooped tail head and depression behind the withers. Once these deformities de-formities occur, they cannot be corrected. |