title: Involvement of molybdenum in feather growth.
abstract: A poor hatchability syndrome, characterised by a high incidence of weak chickens, with clubbed down and long ginger hairs, in commercial broiler breeding stock was investigated. 2. If the weak chick were given a single oral treatment of ammonium molybdate (40 microgram Mo/chick at 1 d), there was a reduction in subsequent mortality in both sexes and an increase in the growth rate of feathers in males, but not in females.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D005241:Feathers / Q000254:growth & development*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D008982:Molybdenum / Q000172:deficiency* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality; D012737:Sex Factors
chemical_list: D008982:Molybdenum