GENETIC ASPECTS IN SOME GROWTH AND MEASUREMENTS TRAITS IN BALADI BLACK RABBITS | ||||
Egyptian Journal of Rabbit Science | ||||
Article 4, Volume 23, Issue 2, July 2013, Page 123-135 PDF (731.08 K) | ||||
Document Type: Original Article | ||||
DOI: 10.21608/ejrs.2013.54259 | ||||
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Authors | ||||
Faten El-Badawy* 1; Nader hassan1; Essam El-Gendy2; Farid Stino2 | ||||
1Animal Production Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Giza, Egypt. | ||||
2Department of Animal Production, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt. | ||||
Abstract | ||||
A total of 109 progeny of 8 sires and 19 dams from a Baladi Black random breed population were used to estimate the heritability and genetic correlations of juvenile growth traits. The traits were individual body weight (BW), body length (BL), chest circumference (CC) and thigh circumference (TC) at 6, 8, 10 and 12 weeks of age. Multi-Trait Derivative-Free Restricted Maximum Likelihood Animal Model (DFREML) was used to estimate the genetic variance components, permanent environmental variation and transmitting ability (BLUP) estimates. Additive genetic variance of body weight traits ranged from 16.7% at 6 weeks to 44.0% at 10 weeks. The heritability estimates ranged from 0.18 to 0.42 for body weights, from 0.25 to 0.63 for body lengths, from 0.23 to 0.62 for chest circumferences and from 0.02 to 0.45 for thigh circumferences. High positive genetic correlation estimates were obtained between most of the traits. The ranges of top 25% of the animals using BW and BL data seemed to increase with age. For CC and TC traits, inconsistent trends were revealed for the top 25% of all data Conclusively, the results revealed moderate to high heritability estimates and positive BLUP estimates for growth traits with a sire replacement rate of 20-25%, and this indicates that selection for growth can be successfully practiced in Baladi Black rabbits. | ||||
Keywords | ||||
Rabbits; Growth; variance components; heritability and BLUP estimates | ||||
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