Genetic Improvement in Certain Productive and Egg Quality Traits Correlated with Divergent selection According To Certain Productive and Biochemical Traits In Quail | ||
| Al-Anbar Journal of Veterinary Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 5, Issue 2, December 2012, Pages 188-196 | ||
| Authors | ||
| A. A. Abbas; O. M. Abdullah; E. H. Hadi | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study was carried out on the quail parents flock (F1 generation, 27 family) and it’s progeny (F2 generation, 41 families) that reared in the poultry farm of Animal resources Department, Agriculture College - University of Anbar, for the period from 15/09/2009 to 15/6/2010, the study aimed to investigate the genetic improvement ofcertain productive traits (first egg weight, age and weight at sexual maturity, egg production within 100 days, egg weight and egg mass) and egg quality traits (yolk weigh, albumin weight, albumin diameter, yolk diameter and yolk to albumin ratio) associated withdivergent selection depending on number of productive and serum biochemical traits (serum cholesterol and total protein). The results indicated that there are significant differences in many of productivity and biochemicaltraits in F2 generation correlated with selection of F1 according to a number of traits under this study. The won of the selection according to egg weight and serum protein was the best correlated gain, and there were no significant differences in the correlated response between the lines of high and low for most of the egg quality traits that accordingly carried out on the selection | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Genetic Improvement; Divergent selection; Correlated response; quail | ||
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