Show nf J I 1 IL RICE BRAN KEEPS FLOCK IN HEALTH good food for chickens in confinement the substitution of from 10 to 20 per cent or of rice bran for otlie other feeding stuffs in the diet of chickens beling being retired reared in confinement helped to prevent a disease known as deforming leg weakness the united states department of agriculture agi culture reports as one result of a series of experiments peri ments conducted in operation cooperation co with various states the investigations showed also that no chickens which were being kept hept in confinement to study the ity of various w developing ve peros per ls other experiments planned for the purpose of st sidling si dying the condition shoed sho ed cd that the addition of 0 to 10 per cent of rice bran to the diet caused a marked reduction in the number of afflicted birds usually makes its appearance among actively growing chicks kept in confinement and red fed an unsuitable diet one of the first symptoms sym Is a guinness pu inness of the joints of the legs and a tendency on the part of the ilie affected birds to squat for long lon periods of time the next stage Is characterized by an increase of the puffiness and a bending of the leg bones in the final form lie he disease leaves the joints of the legs permanently deformed the investigations showed also that an adjustment of the relative quantity of calcium and phosphorus in the diet as well as athe addition of rice bran helped to prevent when the two changes were made simultaneously no cases of occurred Is IB not the same as lokets lck ets the department points out chickens with show normal ash content of their leg bones and the calcium ind inorganic phosphorus content of their blood serum seram Is normus neither of which condition Is true of chickens with rickets the tests indicate that another vitamin besides D Is for the development of the bones bonca of ch chickens lekens |