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EFFECT OF SELECTION FOR SKELETAL TRAITS ON BODY WEIGHT IN ALEXANDRIA LOCAL CHICKENS.

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Last updated: 29 Dec 2024

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Animal and Poultry Sciences

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The present study aimed to improve the body weight in the Alexandria chickens by selection for the skeletal traits of the high breast width, breast length and leg length at eight weeks of age. 2500 birds at a day of hatch were obtained from 5 consecutive hatching weekly hatches were taken for one generation. The results of this study showed that the overall means for Body weight at four, eight and twelve weeks (BW4), (BW8) and (BW12) were (204.699 and 190.02 g.), (718.559 and 610.20 g.) and (1289.99 and 1049.002 g.) for males and females,respectively. This results showed that the differences among line were highly significant (P≤ 0.01) in selected line than control line in BW8 and BW12..Also, the overall means of shank length (SL8), breast length (BRL8) and breast width in eight weeks of age (BRW8) were (6.81and 6.38 cm), (11.85 and11.23 cm) and (11.24 and 10.78 cm) for males and females, respectively. The selection for the skeletal traits in Alexandria chickens in eight weeks of age showed that the differences among line were highly significant (P≤ 0.01) for albumin and Albumin/Globulin ratio in selected line. The analysis results showed that highly significant (<0.0001) positive correlation for BW4 with SL8 (0.47), BRL8 (0.41) and BRW8 (0.39),and highly significant(<0.0001)positive correlation for BW8 with SL8 (0.46),BRL8 (0.61), BRW8 (0.498) and highly significant (<0.0001) positive correlation for BW12 with SL8 (0.39),BRL8 (0.46) and BRW8 (0.42),respectively.In conclusion selection for skeletal traits increased body weight in selected line than control line at different ages.

DOI

10.21608/jaesj.2023.208140.1086

Keywords

local chickens, selection, Skeletal traits, body weight, correlation

Authors

First Name

Hala

Last Name

Fouad

MiddleName

Ahmed

Affiliation

animal and poultry science, poultry science, faculty of agricultural, Damanhour university

Email

lolaahmedf985@gmail.com

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First Name

Amira

Last Name

El-Dlebshany

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Affiliation

Professor of Poultry Breeding, Poult. Prod. Dep., Fac. of Agric., Alexandria Uni., Egypt

Email

amiraeldlebshany@yahoo.com

City

Alexandria, Egypt

Orcid

0000-0001-9162-8116

First Name

Manal

Last Name

Moustafa

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Professor of Plant Genetics, Department of Plant Pathology, Damanhour university

Email

mm.rahman@agr.dmu.edu.eg

City

Damanhour, Egypt

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First Name

Abd El-Hamid

Last Name

Abd El-Hamid

MiddleName

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Affiliation

Animal and poultry production department, Faculty of Agriculture, Damanhour University,

Email

abd_el_hamid_agric@yahoo.com

City

Damanhour, Egypt

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First Name

Waleed

Last Name

Altahawy

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Affiliation

Professor of Poultry, Department of Animal, Poultry, and Fish Sciences, Damanhour university

Email

waleed.eltahawy@agr.dmu.edu.eg

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Damanhour, Egypt

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22

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2

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41475

Issue Date

2023-08-01

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2023-04-30

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2023-08-01

Page Start

122

Page End

142

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1687-1464

Online ISSN

2735-5098

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Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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EFFECT OF SELECTION FOR SKELETAL TRAITS ON BODY WEIGHT IN ALEXANDRIA LOCAL CHICKENS.

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29 Dec 2024