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Genetic analysis of juvenile growth and carcass traits in a full diallel mating in selected colored broiler lines

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The juvenile growth and carcass traits were evaluated in a 4 × 4 full diallel crossing involving four colored broiler chicken lines viz., Naked neck (NN), Dwarf, Punjab Broiler-1 (PB-1), and Punjab Broiler-2 to study the performance and crossbreeding parameters. The data on 2,280 chicks were analyzed using least squares techniques to assess the effect of genetic group, and the significant traits were further analyzed for crossbreeding parameters. Genetic group had significant influence on the body weights and carcass traits. The cross of PB-1 × NN recorded significantly (p ≤ 0.05) higher body weight at 6 weeks of age. The data revealed that general combining ability (GCA), specific combining ability (SCA), maternal ability (MA), sex-linked effect (SE), and purebred effects significantly influenced the growth and carcass traits in the broiler crosses. The crossbred PB-1 × NN showed positive heterosis for growth as well as carcass traits. The results suggest that GCA, SCA, SE, and MA are important in the inheritance of the body weights and carcass traits indicating the presence of both additive and nonadditive genetic variation along with reciprocal effects. Therefore, pure line selection along with development of specialized sire and dam lines followed by crossing will improve the growth performance and benefit the poultry farmers. It is concluded that PB-1 as a male line and NN as a female line performed significantly higher, therefore, may be used for improving the performance of colored broilers.

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Abbreviations

NN:

Naked neck

DD:

Dwarf

PB-1:

Punjab Broiler-1

PB-2:

Punjab Broiler-2

GCA:

General combining ability

SCA:

Specific combining ability

MA:

Maternal ability

SE:

Sex-linked effects

PE:

Purebred effect

Na :

Naked neck gene

dw :

Dwarf gene

F :

Frizzle gene

g:

Grams

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    Ullengala Rajkumar, R. P. Sharma, M. K. Padhi, K. S. Rajaravindra, B. L. N. Reddy, M. Niranjan, T. K. Bhattacharya, S. Haunshi & R. N. Chatterjee

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Rajkumar, U., Sharma, R.P., Padhi, M.K. et al. Genetic analysis of juvenile growth and carcass traits in a full diallel mating in selected colored broiler lines. Trop Anim Health Prod 43, 1129–1136 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-011-9812-6

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