The current study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary iron-loaded chitooligosacharide nanoparticles (Fe-CNP) on occurrence of bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis (BCO) in broiler chickens. Four hundred eighty day-old chicks (Ross 308) were assigned to four treatments with six replicates of 20 birds. All chicks were reared on wire flooring system up to 42 days of age. Th...

Modern day broilers have a great genetic potential to gain heavy bodyweights with huge metabolic demand prior their fully mature ages. Moreover, this made the prone opportunistic pathogens which may enter locomotory organs under stress causing bacterial chondronecrosis and osteomyelitis (BCO). Such pathogenic colonization is further accelerated by microfractures clefts that are formed in bones ...

We investigated lameness outbreaks at 3 commercial broiler farms in Arkansas. isolated several distinct bacterial species from Bacterial Chondronecrosis with Osteomyelitis (BCO) lesions these farms. The results show that BCO-lameness pathogens on particular can differ significantly. characterized genomes for isolates of the 2 most prevalent species, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. G...

Bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis (BCO) is a common cause of lameness in commercial broiler chickens worldwide. BCO represents substantial production loss and welfare issues of chickens. The bacterial species or communities underlying BCO pathogenesis still remain to be fully characterized. To gain insights on blood microbiota in broilers and its potential association with BCO, blood...