ESTIMATES OF GENETIC PARAMETERS FOR BODY WEIGHT AND SHANK LENGTH IN ASEEL CHICKEN
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2014
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Abstract
Data on body weight, thigh length and shank length at eighth week from 237 Aseel birds were used
for this study. The effects due to hatch and sex were found to be highly significant (P<0.01) on
these traits except non-significant hatch effect on thigh length. The data were corrected for the
fixed effects of hatch and sex for the estimation of heritability for these traits by paternal half-sib
correlation method and Derivative Free Restricted Maximum Likelihood (DFREML) procedure. The
heritability for these traits estimated by both the models were very low, non-significant and not
different from zero.
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TNV_IJFV_2014_9(3)71-72
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Veterinary Science