GENETIC CHARACTERIZATION OF BODY WEIGHT TRAITS IN ROCKY PARTRIDGE CHICKS

The study was conducted on 118 partridges (Alectoris graeca) chicks in order to find the effect of non-genetic factors and genetic evaluation live weight carcass this bird. results showed a highly significant superiority weights males over females most age stages (437.71 ± 4.40 vs 375.90 3.66 g/ bird at marketing age) daily gain (ADG) from one day (4.70 0.06 4.01 0.04 day/bird). breeding values (BLUP) ​​of birds for ranged -135.4 g/bird 56 g/bird. Significant differences were recorded between groups with high low BLUP ​​in average market (464.21 11.03 352.80 6.47 g/bird) (349.48 7.46 265.91 6.08 g/bird). Males also outperformed significantly weight. positive correlation rate different ages except day, which negative not significant. Also, correlations body weight, but dressing ratio wide variation ​​and presence ​​indicates possibility developing increasing these through selection process.