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Approaches in Poultry, Dairy & Veterinary Sciences

Metabolic Bone Diseases of Captive Mammal, Reptile and Birds

Submission: February 24, 2018; Published: April 10, 2018

DOI: 10.31031/APDV.2018.03.000563

ISSN: 2576-9162
Volume3 Issue3

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Metabolic Bone Disease (MBD) is the collective name given to a number of symptoms and problems commonly seen in captive mammals, birds and reptiles. The captive housed indoor animals are more susceptible to MBD; because of they have little access to UV light. Other names for MBD include Fibrous Osteodystrophy and Secondary Nutritional Hyperparathyroidism. All vertebrates need certain nutritional building blocks to form their skeletal systems. When they do not get sufficient nutrition in the proper proportions to form healthy bone structure, the animal suffer from metabolic bone disease. Symptoms of metabolic bone disease vary between species and individual animals, but includes soft short jaws, sprawl (inability to lift the body off the ground), anorexia, lameness, swollen limbs, bone fractures, curvature of the spine, tremors, small or deformed carapaces and death. Metabolic bone disease is particularly devastating for growing animals since this is the time in their lives when they are most actively forming their skeletal structure.

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