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Morphometric differentiation of three chicken ecotypes of Ethiopia using multivariate analysis.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2024
Markos Shishay, Belay Berhanu, Dessie Tadelle
Abstract excerpt
Twenty-one morphometric traits were measured on 770 extensively managed indigenous chickens in the western zone of Tigray, comprising 412 hens and 358 cocks in three agro-ecologies. The quantitative traits for male and female chicken ecotypes were separately analyzed using multivariate analysis with SAS 2008. Four and seven principal components accounted for about 74.26% and 69.77% of the total variability in...
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