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Direct and correlated responses from selection for early sexual maturity in Japanese quail

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Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

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Animal and Poultry Production

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Base population after third generation of selection conclude total number of 788 birds at 6 weeks of age were used in this study and randomly assigned to two mating groups. First groupe was selected for early age at sexual maturity (EASM) and the second was as a control line (RBC) to study the direct and correlated responses for this direct of selection. The results can be summarized as follow:

EASM was highly significantly (P≤0.01) decreased from 39.54 days to 35.23 days.
The actual and the expected selection differentials were 2.52 and 2.29g / generation.
The actual response to selection in the (EASM) line was1.46g /generation.

a- Heritability of EASM estimated ranged from 0.29 to 0.35
b- The realized heritability ranged from 0.44 to 0.79.
c- Correlated responses for EASM were as follow:
d- BW0, BW2, BW4, and BW6 increased significantly (P≤0.05) from 9.95, 40.58, 98.84 and 170.47g to 10.47, 47.01, 101.87 and 181.42g.
e- Egg weight (EW) was decreased (P≤0.05) from 10.74g to 10.04g. But Body weight at sexual maturity (BWSM) was increased from 136.32 g to 139.32 g. Total egg weight at first ten week (TEN10) decreased from 55.25eggs to 54.25egg.
f- Fertility (FR %) was increased (P≤0.05) from 80.58% to 80.90%. and Hatchability (HA %) were increased (P≤0.05) from 70.42% to 70.92%.
g- Meat, dressing and giblets % were increased significantly (P≤0.05) from 42.33, 62.04 and14.27% to 43. 76%, 63.99 and 14.99%.

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10.21608/aasj.2019.60556

Keywords

selection, early sexual maturity, direct response, correlated response, Japanese quail

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Ramzy

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Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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ramzyahmed@azhar.edu.eg

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Aboul-Seoud

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Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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Aboul-Hassan

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Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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2

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6645

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2019-04-01

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2019-03-01

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2019-04-01

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28

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40

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2535-1680

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2535-1699

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Archives of Agriculture Sciences Journal

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Direct and correlated responses from selection for early sexual maturity in Japanese quail

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22 Jan 2023