Body weight and linear body measurements body length height at withers and heart girth were taken during a 7 d period. Used to establish the strength of linear relationship and association between the different lbms together with the bodyweight using the model.
Correlations Between Body Weight And Linear Body Measurements
Correlation of bodyweight and linear body measurement. Body weight ndand body measurements at 2 4th and 8th weeks. The phenotypic correlation for body weight and linear body measurement was high and positively significant p001 in nb. The best correlation was obtained between body weight and body girth at the 2nd week of age 070. Linear body measurements and prices of goats. It was found that all the linear body measurements. The estimates of coefficient of determination and predictive equations show that body weight in japanese.
Relationship between body weight and linear body measurements body length height at withers and heart girth. Body weight in different environmental conditions and breeds. In the chinchilla rabbit genotype body weight bw showed a positive and significant correlation and it ranged from 0033 to 0739 in all the body size parameters except for body length and tail. X iy i x2 i y2 i where pearsons product moment correlation coefficient. Relationship of live body weight and other linear body measurements in two sheep breeds of ethiopia. The objectives of present study were to establish the relationship between live body weight and linear body measurements in hissardale sheep and to study the phenotypic characterization of hissardale sheep for body length height at withers heart girth neck length neck.
X i the first random variable of the ith lbm or body weight. Y i the second random variable of the ith lbm or body weight. Proceedings of the 17th annual conference of the ethiopian society of animal production esap september 24 26 2009 addis ababa ethiopia pp. Group 1 4 12 mo group 2 13 18 mo group 3 19 24 mo and group 4 25 36 mo. The goats were of four age groups. All their f ratios are highly significant at p001 confirming the significance of these variables on the prices of the animals.
The correlation relationship between body measurements and the live weights of sheep are presented in table 3. Br strains also observed the same trend except against kl. The phenotypic correlation estimates for body weight and linear body measurement at 12 16 and 20 weeks of age for the strains are shown in table 7.