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Impact of Removal of Incubated Eggs or Replacing them with Dummy Eggs on the Behaviour and Performance of Egyptian Baladi Pigeons

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Animal Health, Nutrition and Food Control (Veterinary Public Health, Animal Wealth Development, Animal Nutrition, Zoonoses, Food Control)

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the impacts of egg removal or replacement with dummy eggs on behaviour, performance, and prolactin levels in Egyptian Baladi pigeons. Twenty pairs of mature Egyptian Baladi pigeons (12-18 months) were distributed into four groups (5 replicates each, one pair per replicate). Group 1 (G1): parents incubated two eggs without remove (control), G2: incubated eggs were removed and replaced by dummy faked eggs, G3: included the removal of 1st egg only after laying, and G4: each pair had two eggs removal after 2nd egg lay (incubate no eggs). Using a digital camera for recording and analysing the behaviour. The results showed that the most of maintenance behaviour (kinetic, ingestive, and body comfort behaviour) were higher in G1 and G2 than other groups. While resting behaviour (crouching and perching) increased in more stressed groups (G3 and G4) due to egg removal. Most of the courtship behaviour in breeding males and females increased in G3and G4 as they began another egg cycle rapidly after egg removal. However, G1 and G2 showed greater reproductive behaviour after egg laying than other groups, because breeding parents in these groups had already incubated either natural or dummy eggs. Meanwhile, egg searching and peeping increased by egg removal in G3 and G4. The incubation period was prolonged in G2 compared with other groups, but egg laying interval increased in G1 compared with others as they had hatched eggs and reared squabs, so prolactin level increased in groups (G1 and G2) with incubated eggs. The current study proved that egg removal and/or replacement affected most of the maintenance and reproductive behaviour of Egyptian Baladi pigeons. In conclusion, egg removal techniques can be used as a method of breeding control for pigeons while egg replacement by faked eggs could help in artificial incubation techniques.

DOI

10.21608/zvjz.2024.280776.1239

Keywords

behaviour, Pigeon, Incubated egg, Dummy eggs, Removal eggs

Authors

First Name

Heba

Last Name

Garib

MiddleName

S.A.

Affiliation

Behaviour and management of animal, poultry and aquatics Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, P.O. Box 44511, Zagazig, Egypt

Email

heba.gharib.85@gmail.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-3088-3276

First Name

Esraa

Last Name

Dawod

MiddleName

H

Affiliation

Behaviour and management of animal, poultry and aquatics Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, P.O. Box 44511, Zagazig, Egypt

Email

hesraa907@gmail.com

City

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Orcid

-

First Name

Mohameb

Last Name

Youssef

MiddleName

Y.I.

Affiliation

Behaviour and management of animal, poultry and aquatics Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, P.O. Box 44511, Zagazig, Egypt

Email

mzead48@yahoo.com

City

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Orcid

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First Name

Al Sadik

Last Name

Saleem

MiddleName

K.Y.

Affiliation

Behaviour and management of animal, poultry and aquatics Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, P.O. Box 44511, Zagazig, Egypt

Email

sadekkhalil@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Asmaa

Last Name

Abdelaty

MiddleName

I

Affiliation

Behaviour and management of animal, poultry and aquatics Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, P.O. Box 44511, Zagazig, Egypt

Email

asmaaibrahimvet@gmail.com

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Volume

52

Article Issue

2

Related Issue

49242

Issue Date

2024-06-01

Receive Date

2024-04-13

Publish Date

2024-06-01

Page Start

211

Page End

226

Print ISSN

1110-1458

Online ISSN

2357-075X

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https://zvjz.journals.ekb.eg/article_367744.html

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https://zvjz.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=367744

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367,744

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Original Article

Type Code

601

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Journal

Publication Title

Zagazig Veterinary Journal

Publication Link

https://zvjz.journals.ekb.eg/

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Impact of Removal of Incubated Eggs or Replacing them with Dummy Eggs on the Behaviour and Performance of Egyptian Baladi Pigeons

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Created At

30 Dec 2024