The Effect of Selective Breeding for Body Weight on Geometric Properties in Turkey Femurs

Crespo et al. (1999) was the first to identify the problem of turkey femoral fractures in breeding farms [3]. It was suggested that this type of failure was the result of fatigue under daily activities as opposed to acute trauma [1]. There are a number of factors that can lead to decreased bone integrity including ineffective bone mineralization, microcrack propagation and changes in collagen fibril orientation [1, 4, 5].