28Feb 2017

BEHAVIOUR AND MANAGEMENT GUIDE OF SOME ORNAMENTAL BIRDS IN RELATION TO DIURNAL HOURS.

  • Vet. Public Health, Dept.Vet. Med, Zagazig Univ, Zagazig, Egypt.
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This study was conducted to study the effect of diurnal hours of the day on some maintenance behaviour of psittaciformes birds as cockatiel and blue Budgerigars. A total number of apparently healthy thirty nine birds (14 birds budgerigars and 25 birds cockateil aged from (12 month up to 10 years) belonged to the zoo at zagazig city, Sharkia governorate were housed in 2 large cages and aviaries. During the experiment, the duration and frequency of observed maintenance behaviour were recorded. From the obtained results, that there was a significant differences (P<0.05) of feeding time of Cockatiel in relation to the diurnal effects. As the feeding behaviour time and frequencies were increased at mid day than other times of the day. The sleeping behaviour and the time staying in the cage of cockatiel were increased with dusk and late afternoon and the differences were highly significant P(≤ 0.01). There were a non significant differences of sexual and social bond of budgerigars with in the total day hours. Form this study, can mentioned that the family variety play an important role in change some behavioural patterns and habits of the ornamental birds as flying ,walking and sleeping behaviour according to body mass of each bird family.

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[Shereen El. Abdel-Hamid. (2017); BEHAVIOUR AND MANAGEMENT GUIDE OF SOME ORNAMENTAL BIRDS IN RELATION TO DIURNAL HOURS. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Feb). 2084-2090] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Shereen El. Abdel-Hamid
Department of veterinary public health, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt.

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3381      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3381

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