Survey study on pigeons breeding in El-Gabal El-Akhdar, Libya

• Massuda A. El-Alami

  Department of Animal production - Faculty of Agriculture, Omar Al-Mukhtar University, Al-Bayda, Libya

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It’s well known that pigeons have been reared all over the world, mankind has practiced with pigeons keeping in almost every part of world for their nice characterize, behaviors beside good source of meat. Weakness of scientific information on pigeons was the main driving objective to conduct this study. Data was collected through semi-structured interview with questionnaire including 100 households in El-Gabal El-Akhdar region, Libya.The questionnaire results showed that breeding pigeons spread widely in
El-Gabal El-Akhdar region. The holder ware young age with middle school education that love this hobby and they have alots of knowledge and experience, as it was through thus hobby because they consider it source of income.

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