EGG QUALITY OF THE NIGERIAN LOCAL CHICKEN AS INFLUENCED BY SOME MAJOR GENES

Authors

  • S. O. Peters University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria
  • C. O. N Ikeobi University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria
  • M. O. Ozoje University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria
  • O. A. Famakinwa University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria
  • Y. S. Oshodi University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria
  • O. A. Adebambo University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51791/njap.v34i1.2415

Keywords:

Nigerian local chicken, frizzling gene, Naked neck gene, egg quality

Abstract

An investigations was carried out to determine the effect of the major genes of frizzling and naked neck on the external and internal egg quality traits of the Nigerian local chicken. Egg weight significantly (P < 0.01) favoured the frizzled local chicken and the naked-necked local chicken over the fully feathered (normal ) local chicken. The frizzling gene, F, caused an increase of 8.13% in weight while the naked neck gene Na, increased egg weight by 5.85%. The Na gene caused the production of better egg shape index (0.73) when compared to F and nana, ff genotypes. Eggs of frizzed and naked-neck locals also had significantly (P < 0.05) better Haugh unit, percent shell, percent albumen and percent yolk than the normal feathered counterpart. It is therefore reasonable to incorporate the major genes frizzling and naked-neck in producing a locally-adapter commercial egg strain

Author Biographies

S. O. Peters, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria

Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics

C. O. N Ikeobi, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria

Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics

M. O. Ozoje, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria

Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics

O. A. Famakinwa, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria

Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics

Y. S. Oshodi, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria

Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics

O. A. Adebambo, University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria

Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics

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Published

2021-01-11

How to Cite

Peters, S. O., Ikeobi, C. O. N., Ozoje, M. O., Famakinwa, O. A., Oshodi, Y. S., & Adebambo, O. A. (2021). EGG QUALITY OF THE NIGERIAN LOCAL CHICKEN AS INFLUENCED BY SOME MAJOR GENES. Nigerian Journal of Animal Production, 34(1), 25–31. https://doi.org/10.51791/njap.v34i1.2415

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