Breeding techniques were used to transfer an economically important physiological character dependent on a single pair of alleles from an indigenous breed (Kadakanath) to the White Leghorn. The mating procedure used to develop a sex-linked, slow-feathering strain of White Leghorn by these means is described and it is shown that using the simplest genetic and breeding techniques productivity can quickly be improved.
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