Abstract:This study aimed to investigate the effects of selection for high early growth rate during 1-21 days of age (GR1-21) on growth traits, some plasma constituent and carcass characteristics. An experiment was carried out at the farm of the Poultry Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Fayoum University and continued for six generations including 10,024 for two lines (the selected line, HGR1-21 and the control line, CL) of Japanese quail chicks. The HGR1-21 had better BW21, BW35, GR1-21, GR1-35 and BWG1-35 than… Show more
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