Table 2.

heritability (bold,diagonal), genetic correlations (above diagonal) and phenotypic correlations (below diagonal) for body size and carcass traits (±standard errors)

Trait	NL	FBL	BrW	DW	DP	EW	EWP	HEW	HEWP	BW42	HW	LW	FW	WW	BMW	BMWP	LMW	LMWP
NL	>0.42 ± 0.14	>0.31 ± 0.17	>0.11 ± 0.24	>0.42 ± 0.14	>0.18 ± 0.33	>0.38 ± 0.15	>− 0.07 ± 0.21	>0.39 ± 0.15	>0.04 ± 0.20	>0.41 ± 0.14	>0.31 ± 0.21	>0.45 ± 0.14	>0.52 ± 0.13	>0.20 ± 0.16	>0.13 ± 0.17	>−0.14 ± 0.21	>0.14 ± 0.24	>−0.10 ± 0.25
FBL	0.40	0.45 ± 0.14	0.48 ± 0.15	0.81 ± 0.10	0.44 ± 0.31	0.76 ± 0.11	−0.12 ± 0.20	0.75 ± 0.11	>−0.15 ± 0.19	0.81 ± 0.10	0.83 ± 0.16	0.67 ± 0.15	0.68 ± 0.13	0.86 ± 0.12	0.68 ± 0.14	0.44 ± 0.20	0.37 ± 0.22	0.11 ± 0.24
BrW	0.11	0.44	0.29 ± 0.11	0.49 ± 0.18	0.41 ± 0.37	1.00 ± 0.17	0.04 ± 0.25	1.00 ± 0.16	−0.03 ± 0.24	1.00 ± 0.25	0.98 ± 0.18	0.77 ± 0.26	0.73 ± 0.19	1.00 ± 0.20	1.00 ± 0.12	0.78 ± 0.20	0.20 ± 0.28	−0.12 ± 0.29
DW	0.28	0.57	0.54	0.60 ± 0.13	0.48 ± 0.24	0.97 ± 0.01	0.10 ± 0.16	0.97 ± 0.01	0.13 ± 0.16	0.99 ± 0.01	1.00 ± 0.10	1.00 ± 0.07	0.79 ± 0.07	0.85 ± 0.06	0.75 ± 0.08	0.34 ± 0.17	0.33 ± 0.18	0.07 ± 0.20
DP	0.11	0.12	−0.02	0.34	0.46 ± 0.12	0.49 ± 0.25	0.38 ± 0.25	0.50 ± 0.25	0.41 ± 0.24	0.39 ± 0.28	0.70 ± 0.30	0.39 ± 0.30	0.53 ± 0.28	0.18 ± 0.29	0.50 ± 0.30	0.38 ± 0.39	0.82 ± 0.49	0.55 ± 0.47
EW	0.27	0.57	0.54	0.98	0.32	0.58 ± 0.13	0.30 ± 0.15	1.00 ± 0.25	0.32 ± 0.15	0.96 ± 0.01	1.00 ± 0.10	0.97 ± 0.09	0.82 ± 0.07	0.88 ± 0.06	0.80 ± 0.08	0.39 ± 0.17	0.36 ± 0.19	0.09 ± 0.20
EWP	0.04	0.11	−0.01	0.23	0.74	0.35	0.44 ± 0.16	0.28 ± 0.15	0.99 ± 0.01	0.02 ± 017	0.09 ± 0.22	0.01 ± 0.17	0.29 ± 0.17	0.15 ± 0.17	0.31 ± 0.16	0.29 ± 0.21	0.50 ± 0.28	0.45 ± 0.29
HEW	0.26	0.56	0.54	0.98	0.31	1.00	0.32	0.58 ± 0.13	0.31 ± 0.15	0.97 ± 0.01	1.00 ± 0.10	0.98 ± 0.08	0.81 ± 0.07	0.88 ± 0.06	0.78 ± 0.08	0.36 ± 0.17	0.34 ± 0.19	0.07 ± 0.20
HEWP	0.02	0.08	−0.01	0.28	0.75	0.38	0.97	0.37	0.43 ± 0.16	0.05 ± 0.16	0.07 ± 0.22	0.08 ± 0.17	0.28 ± 0.17	0.12 ± 0.17	0.25 ± 0.16	0.16 ± 0.21	0.41 ± 0.28	0.35 ± 0.28
BW42	0.27	0.57	0.58	0.97	0.11	0.95	0.06	0.96	0.10	0.64 ± 0.13	0.98 ± 0.10	1.00 ± 0.07	0.77 ± 0.07	0.88 ± 0.06	0.74 ± 0.09	0.34 ± 0.17	0.30 ± 0.18	0.04 ± 0.20
HW	0.11	0.31	0.28	0.52	0.27	0.50	0.19	0.51	0.23	0.48	0.34 ± 0.13	0.95 ± 0.16	0.88 ± 0.12	0.77 ± 0.15	0.91 ± 0.15	0.45 ± 0.23	0.55 ± 0.20	0.26 ± 0.25
LW	0.26	0.37	0.32	0.66	0.09	0.63	−0.03	0.65	0.08	0.68	0.36	0.60 ± 0.13	0.81 ± 0.09	0.86 ± 0.12	0.54 ± 0.15	0.09 ± 0.19	0.16 ± 0.16	−0.01 ± 0.20
FW	0.42	0.50	0.37	0.70	0.14	0.71	0.14	0.70	0.13	0.71	0.45	0.58	0.55 ± 0.13	0.87 ± 0.06	0.58 ± 0.14	0.24 ± 0.20	0.36 ± 0.19	0.13 ± 0.21
WW	0.33	0.54	0.42	0.74	0.20	0.75	0.25	0.73	0.23	0.72	0.42	0.46	0.77	0.57 ± 0.13	0.64 ± 0.12	0.28 ± 0.18	0.38 ± 0.20	0.14 ± 0.21
BMW	0.00	0.42	0.44	0.65	0.22	0.67	0.28	0.66	0.28	0.63	0.42	0.29	0.34	0.46	0.63 ± 0.14	0.86 ± 0.05	0.56 ± 0.18	0.34 ± 0.19
BMWP	−0.19	0.15	0.19	0.15	0.06	0.17	0.13	0.16	0.10	0.15	0.19	−0.07	−0.06	0.07	0.84	0.40 ± 0.15	0.67 ± 0.25	0.50 ± 0.23
LMW	0.05	0.19	0.11	0.17	−0.16	0.21	−0.01	0.20	−0.03	0.23	0.29	0.07	0.29	0.22	0.15	0.04	0.30 ± 0.15	0.96 ± 0.02
LMWP	−0.01	0.08	−0.01	− 0.05	−0.24	− 0.02	−0.09	− 0.02	−0.12	0.01	0.19	−0.07	0.14	0.05	−0.01	0.00	0.97	0.91 ± 0.15

Neck length (NL), Fossil bone length (FBL), Breast width (BrW), Dressed weight (DW), Dressed percentage (DP), Eviscerated weight (EW), Eviscerated weight percentage (EWP), Half-eviscerated weight (HEW), Percentage of half-eviscerated yield (HEWP), 42-day body weight (BW42), Heart weight (HW), Liver weight (LW), Foot weight (FW), Wing weight (WW), Breast muscle weight (BMW), Breast muscle weight percentage (BMWP), Leg muscle weight (LMW), Leg muscle weight percentage (LMWP)