Study for Some Body Weight and Egg Traits in Domyati and Khaki-Campbell Ducks

Table 2.

Shows the heritability estimates (on diagonals), the genetic correlationsand their standard error (above diagonals) and phenotypic correlations (belowdiagonal), of body weight and egg traits in Domyati ducks.

Traits

BW16

BW20

BWF1

NE

EW

EM

Body weight at 16 weeks ,g (BW16)

0.37 ± 0.004

0.90 ±0.002

0.79 ±0.011

0.52±.090

0.57 ±0.088

0.50 ±0.019

Body weight at 20 weeks, g (BW20)

0.93 ±0.001

0.40 ± 0.04

0.78 ±.016

0.57±.084

0.50 ±0.089

0.58 ±0.013

Body weight at first egg, g (BWF1)

0.80 ±0.006

0.840 ±0.004

0.37 ± 0.04

0.57±.088

0.52 ±0.102

0.50 ±0.019

Number of egg (NE)

0.85 ±0.009

0.88 ±0.008

0.88 ±0.007

0.24 ± 0.09

0.69 ±0.141

0.82 ±0.065

Egg weight, g (EW)

0.88 ±0.008

0.83 ±0.010

0.85 ±0.010

0.92 ±0.009

0.21 ± 0.08

0.72 ±0.048

Egg Mass, g (EM)

0.83 ±0.001

0.88 ±0.001

0.83 ±0.001

0.94 ±0.007

0.90 ±0.006

0.30 ± 0.08