The Effect Of Divergent Selection For Body Weight on Egg Quality Traits In Japanese Quail Brown.

Abstract

The study was aimed at investigating the effect of select for body weight reflex two way high and low from mean flock at four weeks age compared flock control on egg quality of japonica quails for the period from 1/6/2008 to 25/12/2008 .used in this study for all 225 female at genotype this females select from flock in farm animal in department of animal resources , collage of agriculture , university of tikrit . the results of the present investigation were the following apparent significant for select correlation of high body weight in all the egg weight , yolk weight , shell weight , albumin weight .albumin percentage long albumin , diameters yolk , high albumin , diameters albumin while non-apparent significant different between of three genotype of the traits diameter yolk , thin shell index yolk and shape of egg .