Evaluation of reciprocal F1 crosses of Fayoumi with two exotic chicken breeds 1: additive and non-additive effects on egg production traits

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationAdami Tulu Agricultural Research Center, Ethiopiaen
cg.contributor.affiliationHaramaya Universityen
cg.contributor.affiliationEthiopian Institute of Agricultural Researchen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.donorBill & Melinda Gates Foundationen
cg.creator.identifierTadelle Dessie: 0000-0002-1630-0417en
cg.creator.identifierWondmeneh Esatu: 0000-0001-7279-8240en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-023-03735-9en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1573-7438en
cg.issue5en
cg.journalTropical Animal Health and Productionen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL BREEDINGen
cg.subject.ilriBREEDSen
cg.subject.ilriCHICKENSen
cg.subject.ilriGENETICSen
cg.volume55en
dc.contributor.authorNegash, F.en
dc.contributor.authorAbegaz, S.en
dc.contributor.authorTadesse, Y.en
dc.contributor.authorJembere, T.en
dc.contributor.authorEsatu, Wondmenehen
dc.contributor.authorDessie, Tadelleen
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-27T12:15:01Zen
dc.date.available2023-09-27T12:15:01Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/132030
dc.titleEvaluation of reciprocal F1 crosses of Fayoumi with two exotic chicken breeds 1: additive and non-additive effects on egg production traitsen
dcterms.abstractThe present study estimates additive and non-additive effects on egg production traits in genotypes generated through pure mating and reciprocal crossing of Fayoumi (FM) with Koekoek (KK) and White Leghorn (WL). Age at first egg (AFE) and body weight at first egg (BWAFE) were determined when the first bird in the pen laid its first egg, and egg weight at first egg (EWAFE) was the average weight of eggs laid consecutively during the first 10 days. Egg number (EN) and egg weight (EW) were recorded daily from AFE to 40 weeks of age. Egg mass (EM) was the product of EN and EW. EN of hens initially housed and hens alive during the experiment were used to calculate hen-housed egg production (HHEP) and hen-day egg production (HDEP), respectively. All the traits showed statistically significant differences among the genotypes. The results revealed the importance of additive and non-additive effects, where purebred effect (PE), general combining ability (GCA), maternal effect (ME), specific combining ability (SCA), and residual reciprocal effect (RRE) significantly affected most of the traits. The KK and WL had a higher PE, and GCA was highest in KK, with FM and WL showing a higher ME. The FM x WL had higher SCA and RRE. The KK x FM and FM x WL outperformed their main and reciprocal crosses, respectively, and purebred contemporaries. Therefore, a synthetic breeding program involving KK as a sire and FM, WL, FM x WL, and KK x FM as a dam would be feasible.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2023-09-12en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationNegash, F., Abegaz, S., Tadesse, Y., Jembere, T., Esatu, W. and Dessie, T. 2023. Evaluation of reciprocal F1 crosses of Fayoumi with two exotic chicken breeds 1: additive and non-additive effects on egg production traits. Tropical Animal Health and Production 55:303.en
dcterms.issued2023-10en
dcterms.languageenen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en
dcterms.publisherSpringeren
dcterms.subjectanimal breedingen
dcterms.subjectbreedsen
dcterms.subjectchickensen
dcterms.subjectgeneticsen
dcterms.typeJournal Articleen

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