Molecular Nutrition

Early Growth of Pigeon Squabs and Nutrient Levels of Crop Milk

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  • Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, Beijing Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China

Received date: 2018-08-02

  Online published: 2019-03-18

Abstract

During recent years, the scale, mechanization and standardization of the pigeon industry have been greatly improved. The pigeon industry has gradually become an independent branch of animal husbandry. However, the requirements of energy, protein, amino acids, minerals and vitamins of pigeon squabs were rarely reported. This may be due to the fact that pigeon squabs need to be fed ‘milk’ by both male and female pigeons before they reach adult weights. The research progress on the early extraordinary growth of pigeon squabs and the nutrient levels of crop milk are reviewed in this paper, which provides a theoretical basis for the research on the nutritional needs of squabs and the artificial brooding of squabs in practice, so as to promote the healthy development of the pigeon industry.

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SHAN Dacong, WANG Zheng, HUANG Jianguo, JI Feng . Early Growth of Pigeon Squabs and Nutrient Levels of Crop Milk[J]. Chinese Journal of Animal Nutrition, 2019 , 31(3) : 981 -986 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1006-267x.2019.03.001

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