Show crooked breast bones found in chich chickens ens crooked breast bones may lie be caused by inbreeding and general debility or may come from improper food anti and feeding or poor management of some kind hind writes michael K buyer boyer in the ilie farm and ranch there la Is no question about heredity being the fault at al least to a certain extent that being the fact it should he be bred out oat which might he be done by the selection of only straight breastbone breast bone fowls tor for the breeding pen anek of bone making material in the if feed of growing stock which Is the th pi alime line cause of leg weakness hns has also the effect of producing smoked d breast bones in young aldel chickens eng there used to be a theory which by many still Is believed that very early ro of growing birds causes the soft breast bones to bend this night be go BO in some gome instances blit ant dues does not hold good with the general run tit of stock |