Title
Biometric characterization and estimation of body weight in creole cattle in the community of Chunuranra-Huancavelica (Perú)
Date Issued
01 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Enriquez D.
Vilcapaza L.
Guitierrez N.
Del Solar J.
Abstract
96 creole cattle from Huancavelica region (Peru) of different ages and sexes were studied aiming to determinate phenotypic correlations between body weight (PC) and biometric measurements: Width (HW) and head length (HL); width (ChW), length (ChL), perimeter (ChP) and chest height (ChH); width (CrW), length (CrL) and croup height (CrH), back lumbar distance (BLD); length (BL) and full body length (FBW), cross height (CroH) and abdominal perimeter (AP). These traits were adjusted in a first-degree multiple linear regression to obtain a PC prediction equation. Phenotypic correlations were high and significant (p <0.001) between PC-AG (0.57), PC-PT (0.58), PC-LAC (0.60), PC-ACR (0.56) and PC-PA (0.58). The PC prediction can be done by the equation: PC =-321.043 + 1.82 AP + 0.78928 BL + 1.46924 CroH. AP, BL and CroH can be useful and serve as good indicative of PC of the creole cattle.
Start page
246
End page
250
Volume
70
Issue
271
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85126373395
Source
Archivos de Zootecnia
ISSN of the container
00040592
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus