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Explaining the process, an official said that the breeding centre had collected 30 eggs from the wild of which six were damaged..
In a first, a captive hatched and bred Great Indian Bustards (GIB) has given birth to a chick in Jaisalmers GIB breeding centre...
As of now, we have 22 artificially hatched GIBs at the Jaisalmer breeding centre, the official said.. Ashish Vyas, divisional forest officer and in-charge of Desert National Park (DNP) said on March 6, one artificially reared couple gave an egg and after the artificial incubation process on Saturday a chick has been successfully hatched...
Dr Sarwar Singh Rathore, a veterinary scientist at the GIB Conservation Breeding project at Sam in Jaisalmer, said the chick is healthy and the hatching took place after 21 days of incubation...
Many times, the GIBs eggs in wild are eaten by predators and the initiative of artificial hatching was to get maximum chicks from the eggs, which are a few in a year, he said.. Vyas said that the chicks from captive bustards would help the centre to have a population of GIBs for introduction to its natural habitat..
