Table 4.
The comparison of organs indexes among HW geese with different wing types.
| Item | Weight | Wing type |
SEM | P-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NW | UAW | BAW | ||||
| Live weight (kg) | 4.47 | 4.48 | 4.34 | 0.08 | 0.713 | |
| Eviscerated weight(kg) | 3.41 | 3.29 | 3.23 | 0.07 | 0.494 | |
| Wing | Total weight (kg) | 0.48 | 0.43 | 0.44 | 0.01 | 0.148 |
| Percentage of wing (%) | 13.98 | 13.20 | 13.55 | 0.18 | 0.217 | |
| Cardiac | Weight (g) | 33.78 | 29.99 | 30.96 | 0.90 | 0.204 |
| Relative weight (g/kg) | 7.57 | 6.70 | 7.12 | 0.17 | 0.116 | |
| Liver | Weight (g) | 82.18 | 78.78 | 81.43 | 2.25 | 0.914 |
| Relative weight (g/kg) | 18.45 | 17.85 | 18.74 | 0.46 | 0.746 | |
| Spleen | Weight (g) | 4.63 | 3.93 | 4.79 | 0.55 | 0.441 |
| Relative weight (g/kg) | 1.05 | 0.87 | 1.10 | 0.06 | 0.262 | |
| Testis | Weight (g) | 0.29 | 0.30 | 0.40 | 0.03 | 0.132 |
| Relative weight (g/kg) | 0.066 | 0.065 | 0.092 | 0.006 | 0.092 | |
Abbreviations: BAW, goose with bilateral angel wing; NW, goose with normal wing; UAW, goose with unilateral angel wing.
Percentage of wing is the total weight of wings relative to eviscerated weight.
Relative weight of other traits is part weight relative to live weight. n = 7–10.