425536

Effect of Transportation on Maintenance, Behavior, and Performance in Turkey Poults during the Brooding Period

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Last updated: 04 May 2025

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

Abstract

 Transporting turkey poults is one of the most stressful parts of transportation management. Although the impact of transportation stress on animal welfare is widely known, limited data is available about how transportation influences behavior, performance, and welfare. Consequently, to evaluate the transportation effects on Turkey's performance and behavior, turkey poults were classified into two groups according to two types of transport, the first group was 150 poults Grade marker one day -old chick flight from France to Egypt for 4.30 hours with short Journey transport and the second group was 150 poults Grade maker one day-old chick flight for 24-48 hours with long journey flight from Tunisia to Egypt. The current study indicated that the short-term transport showed a marked increase in some maintenance behavioral patterns such as kinetic behavior and comfort behavior compared with long journey transport. While growth performance as feed intake and total feed conversion ratio was mild increase in the long journey transport (1.65±0.005) in long journey than short journey (1.42±0.003) with mild increase in abnormal behavior as cannibalism (0.83±0.35) in long journey transport than short journey transport (0.500±0.35). In conclusion, transportation has a substantial effect on turkey poults' welfare, behavior, and growth performance.

DOI

10.21608/zvjz.2025.344675.1272

Keywords

Turkey pullets, Transport stress, maintaince behaviour, Growth performance, brooding period

Authors

First Name

Azza

Last Name

Fahd

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Animal and poultry health Department, animal production and poultry division, Desert Research Center (DRC), Cairo, (11753) Egypt

Email

drazzafahd@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

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First Name

Mohameb

Last Name

Yousef

MiddleName

Yousef Ibrahim

Affiliation

Behavior and Management of Animal, Poultry and Aquatic Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44511, Egypt

Email

mzead48@yahoo.com

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Orcid

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First Name

Alsadik

Last Name

Saleem

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Behavior and Management of Animal, Poultry and Aquatic Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44511, Egypt

Email

sadekkahlil@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

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First Name

azhar

Last Name

fakhry

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Behavior and Management of Animal, Poultry and Aquatic Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig 44511, Egypt

Email

azharfakhry478@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Gehad

Last Name

Donia

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Animal and poultry health Department, animal production and poultry division, Desert Research Center (DRC), Cairo, (11753) Egypt

Email

gehad.donia@yahoo.com

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Volume

53

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

55475

Issue Date

2025-03-01

Receive Date

2024-12-26

Publish Date

2025-03-01

Page Start

82

Page End

93

Print ISSN

1110-1458

Online ISSN

2357-075X

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601

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Publication Title

Zagazig Veterinary Journal

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

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Effect of Transportation on Maintenance, Behavior, and Performance in Turkey Poults during the Brooding Period

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Article

Created At

04 May 2025