Table 3.

Characterization of carcass traits in native chickens with high, medium, and low RFI

Items	RFI groups			SEM1	P-value
	High	Medium	Low
No. of birds	25	25	25
BW before slaughter, g	1,018.61	1,034.99	1,058.85	8.76	0.174
Carcass weight, g	907.11	929.16	946.82	8.09	0.262
Dressing percentage, %	88.86	89.82	89.31	0.11	0.063
Eviscerated percentage, %	72.48	73.76	73.63	0.29	0.150
Breast muscle weight, g	89.49	90.60	91.23	0.89	0.708
Breast muscle yield, %	11.59	11.81	11.58	0.10	0.592
Leg muscle weight, g	138.78	139.70	140.95	1.78	0.879
Leg muscle yield, %	18.23	18.11	18.17	0.14	0.945
Abdominal fat weight, g	9.38a	9.00b	8.39c	0.13	0.008
Abdominal fat yield, %	1.29a	1.15b	1.06c	0.01	<0.001

¹SEM, pooled standard error of mean.

^a–cMeans within a row with different superscripts letters were significantly different (P < 0.05).