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Genetic Evaluation of Growth Traits in New Synthetic Rabbit Line in Egypt

Open Journal of Agricultural Research | Vol 1, Issue 2

Table 2. Heritabilities (h²), common little effect (c²) and error (e²), relative to phenotypicvariance for body weights and relative growth rate (RGR) traits with theirstandard errors (±SE)

Traits	h²± SE	c² ± SE	e² ± SE

Body weights at:
5 weeks	0.19 ± 0.08	0.61 ± 0.04	0.21± 0.05
6 weeks	0.21 ± 0.08	0.58 ± 0.04	0.22 ± 0.05
8 weeks	0.12 ± 0.08	0.49 ± 0.05	0.39 ± 0.05
10 weeks	0.16 ± 0.09	0.39 ± 0.05	0.45 ± 0.07
12 weeks	0.10 ± 0.08	0.36 ± 0.05	0.54 ± 0.06
14 weeks	0.14 ± 0.10	0.30 ± 0.06	0.56 ± 0.08
16 weeks	0.24 ± 0.01	0.18 ± 0.05	0.58 ± 0.04
18 weeks	0.18 ± 0.01	0.25 ± 0.03	0.58 ± 0.04
20 weeks	0.17 ± 0.01	0.27 ± 0.05	0.55 ± 0.04

RGR at age intervals:

5-6 week	0.23 ± 0.11	0.40 ± 0.06	0.37 ± 0.07
6-8 week	0.20 ± 0.09	0.28 ± 0.04	0.52 ± 0.06
8-10 week	0.18 ± 0.07	0.25 ± 0.04	0.57 ± 0.06
10-12 week	0.06 ± 0.05	0.25 ± 0.05	0.68 ± 0.06
12-14 week	0.01 ± 0.07	0.16 ± 0.05	0.83 ± 0.06
14-16 week	0.01 ± 0.07	0.15 ± 0.05	0.84 ± 0.05
16-18 week	0.09 ± 0.11	0.14 ± 0.06	0.77 ± 0.08
18-20 week	0.02 ± 0.07	0.16 ± 0.06	0.82 ± 0.06
5-20 week	0.13 ± 0.14	0.59 ± 0.08	0.28 ± 0.08

RGR = Relative growth rate (%)