Table 1.

Estimated phenotypic and genetic correlations among morphometric traits and their heritability. Heritabilities (in bold) are on the diagonal, above the diagonal are the genetic correlations and below the diagonal are the phenotypic correlations

	HAW	SH	HG	HW	BL	EL
HAW	0.72 ± 0.08	0.85 ± 0.02	0.80 ± 0.28	0.46 ± 0.05	0.25 ± 0.08	0.42 ± 0.11
SH	0.89 ± 0.01	0.70 ± 0.08	na	0.46 ± 0.05	0.19 ± 0.09	0.42 ± 0.13
HG	0.62 ± 0.03	0.59 ± 0.03	0.42 ± 0.14	0.72 ± 0.15	0.38 ± 0.15	0.58 ± 0.25
HW	0.50 ± 0.04	0.49 ± 0.04	0.58 ± 0.03	0.74 ± 0.13	0.14 ± 0.10	0.35 ± 0.17
BL	0.37 ± 0.04	0.32 ± 0.04	0.45 ± 0.04	0.25 ± 0.05	0.73 ± 0.10	0.25 ± 0.10
EL	0.35 ± 0.04	0.33 ± 0.04	0.29 ± 0.04	0.25 ± 0.05	0.33 ± 0.04	0.74 ± 0.10

HAW height at withers, SH sacrum height, HG heart girth, HW hip width, BL body length and EL ear length