Abstract
MANY descriptions have been published of avian rickets, but most of the results have been based entirely on birds kept under laboratory conditions and fed “synthetic” rations. The existing methods of determining the presence of rickets in the fowl are by histological examination and bone ash determination. Neither of these methods gives a complete picture of the extent of the calcification that has taken place in the skeleton. It is our desire to demonstrate, by the use of the X-ray, the presence of rickets in a flock of birds kept under ordinary farm conditions. It is hoped, therefore, that the results of the experiment to be described will serve a two-fold purpose: (1) to give the laboratory worker a more accurate and complete picture of rickets than that obtained either by microscopic examination or by bone ash determination, and (2) to impress on the poultry breeder that rickets is not .
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