Evaluation of productive and some blood characterizations of black local turkey in Kurdistan region of Iraq | ||
| Al-Anbar Journal of Veterinary Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2012, Pages 61-69 | ||
| Author | ||
| L. A. Ismael | ||
| Abstract | ||
| A total of 6 mature turkeys (2 male and 4 female) from locally Black turkeys produced 66 eggs which hatched 51 poults at Grdarash station/ College of Agriculture/ University of Salahaddin from 15-11-2009 to 1-11-2010. Overall means for percentage of egg production, egg mass, hatching rate, egg weight, poults weight, relative poults weight, high daily and monthly gain were at 5 months were 68.75%, 49.82 gm, 77.023%, 72.47 gm, 48.315 gm, 72.53%, 32.577 gm/day/bird and 977.31 gm/ month/ bird, respectively. Significances differences were found between male and female poults for live body weight and most carcass traits at 6 month of age. On the other hand, no significant differences were found between sexes for warm and cold dressing percentage and gizzard weight. Results also revealed that significant differences between sexes were observed in Basophile, Lymphocyte, Monocyte, H/L ratio, blood sugar and concentration of cholesterol. In conclusion, the results obtained in this study indicated that black local turkey was having good productive traits under open system | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Evaluation of productive; blood characterizations; black local turkey | ||
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