GENETIC PARAMETERS AND CORRELATIONS OF EARLY WEIGHT TRAITS IN A NIGERIAN INDIGENOUS HEAVY X LIGHT ECOTYPES POPULATION OF CHICKENS
Background: Improvement of the Nigerian indigenous chickens is desirable because of its socioeconomic important. Objective: To estimate the heritability, genetic and phenotypic correlations among body weight, body length, wing length and shank length of the mating of heavy ecotype cocks with light e...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán
2023-05-01
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Series: | Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems |
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Online Access: | https://www.revista.ccba.uady.mx/ojs/index.php/TSA/article/view/4433 |