Deficiency Symptoms (Minerals)

Question 1

rickets, osteomalacia, thin eggshells, milk fever.

Answer 1

calcium

Question 2

rickets, osteomalacia, depraved appetite, poor fertility.

Answer 2

phosphorus

Question 3

retarded growth, weakness

Answer 3

potassium

Question 4

dehydration, poor growth, poor egg production

Answer 4

sodium

Question 5

alkalosis

Answer 5

chlorine

Question 6

equivalent to protein deficiency (urea supplemented diets)

Answer 6

sulphur

Question 7

nervous irritability and convulsions, and hypomagnesemia

Answer 7

magnesium

Question 8

anaemia

Answer 8

iron

Question 9

anaemia, poor growth, depigmentation of hair and wool, swayback

Answer 9

copper

Question 10

pining (emaciation, anaemia, listlessness)

Answer 10

cobalt

Question 11

goitre; hairless, weak or dead young

Answer 11

iodine

Question 12

retarded growth, skeletal abnormality, ataxia

Answer 12

manganese

Question 13

parakeratosis, poor growth, depressive appetite

Answer 13

zinc

Question 14

myopathy, exudative diathesis

Answer 14

selenium