Heritability of semen quality traits of crossbred Isa Brown and Nigerian indigenous cocks
Abstract
Main and reciprocal crossbred cocks from a population of 531 day-old chicks were used to study heritability of semen volume (SV), sperm motility (SM), sperm concentration (SC) and live sperm (SP) at 36 and 40 weeks of age. Analysis of variance was performed for unbalanced nested design. The analysis yielded variance components of sire ( ), dam ( ) and sire plus dam ( ), and heritability (h2) of the traits was estimated therefrom. The estimates ranged from 1.33 to 0.02 and 1.481 to 0.03; 1.48 to 0.10 and 0.96 to 0.08; 0.97 to 0.12 and 0.89 to 0.04 at 36 and 40 weeks for SV, SM, SC and LS, respectively. Estimates from , and ranged from 1.48 to 0.02, 1.04 to 0.03 and 0.85 to 0.06 ; 1.10 to 0.04, 1.21 to 0.18 and 0.90 to 0.05; 0.96 to 0.09, 1.48 to 0.01and 0.76 to 0.10; 0.97 to 0.04, 0.89 to 0.12 and 0.69 to 0.08 for the four traits, respectively. Large additive genetic variances existed for most of the semen quality traits, especially the live sperm from sire and sire plus dam variance components of the reciprocal crosses at 40 weeks. These traits were highly heritable and could be improved by individual selection.
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