Allaa Abed Al-Razak Al-Haj* ⁽¹⁾

(1). Animal Production department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Aleppo.

(*Corresponding author: Allaa Al-Haj . E-Mail: allaapcr7@gmail.com).

Received: 15/12/2020        Accepted: 24/02 /202

Abstract

This study was conducted at the Animal House Research Center at Aleppo University on a flock of  Inbred local quail 200, consisting of four color groups (Wh, Cr, Br, and Black Bl) in 2019, to study some productive traits: body weight at all ages of growth, period of egg production and specifications. Internal egg quality. The results showed a high significant effect of local quail birds among studied color groups for the body weight characteristic at all periods, as the birds with the cream color Cr outperformed the rest of the color groups during weeks 3, 4 and 7 of life. A high significant effect was observed for the egg quality characteristics of the local birds among the studied groups, and the white birds (Wh) outperformed the rest of color groups with the characteristics of shape, yolk and albumen index, while the black birds outperformed the rest of the groups with Huff units and with high significant differences

Key words: local quail, inbreeding, body weight, egg quality.

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