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Option 3 : Vitamins A and K
The correct answer is Vitamins A and K.
Concept:
- The domestic fowl (bird) used for food or their eggs are called poultry. It includes chicken, duck, turkey, and geese.
- Poultry feed is a food used by chicken, duck, turkey, geese, and other domestic fowl.
Explanation:
- Vitamins are organic substances that are needed in sufficient quantities to maintain good health.
- Natural sources of vitamins are fruits and vegetables.
- Vitamins are divided into two groups– water-soluble vitamins (Vitamins of B group and Vitamin C) and fat-soluble vitamins (Vitamins A, D, E, and K).
- The levels of vitamins A and K are kept high in poultry feeds.
- In poultry animals, vitamin A promotes fertility and vitamin K promotes bone health.
| Name of Vitamin | Sources | Need | Deficiency diseases |
| Vitamin K | Cabbage, cauliflower, spinach and other green leafy vegetables, cereals, soyabeans | Clotting of blood | Excessive bleeding from wounds |
| Vitamin D | Cheese, butter, milk, green vegetables, fish liver oil, sunlight | Formation of strong bones and teeth | Rickets |
| Vitamin A | Milk, butter, egg, carrots, cod liver oil, tomatoes, pumpkin, green leafy vegetables | Normal growth and to keep eyes and skin healthy | Night blindness, Irregular growth of teeth |
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