BCO, also known as kinky back, occurs when damage to the poultry gut results in bacteria traveling through the gut or respiratory barriers into the blood and settling in the leg bones of a chicken.
Andrea Gantz
Nutritional strategies can help prevent the development of bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis (BCO), a costly leg lameness in broilers.
BCO, also known as kinky back, occurs when damage to the poultry gut or immune suppression results in bacteria traveling through the gut or respiratory barriers into the blood and settling in the leg bones of a chicken, causing lesions and lameness. BCO symptoms typically appear between 30 and 40 days of age, but birds become predisposed to the disease before they hatch.
