Table 3.
Impact of male-female cohabitation period on testicle and cloacal gland evaluation and carcass percentage of quails.
Traits | Male-female cohabitation period |
SEM | P-value | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Continuous | Once | Twice | |||
Carcass (%) | 72.64 | 74.32 | 74.78 | 1.08 | 0.3554 |
Testicle and cloacal gland evaluation | |||||
Right testis weight (%) | 1.59 | 1.69 | 1.66 | 0.103 | 0.7800 |
Left testis weight (%) | 1.46 | 1.49 | 1.76 | 0.12 | 0.2075 |
Gonadosomatic index | 3.05 | 3.18 | 3.42 | 0.211 | 0.4758 |
Cloacal gland size (mm2) | 287.62b | 375.19a | 395.70a | 6.95 | 0.0001 |
Gonadosomatic index = Two testis (%).
Means with different superscripts in the same row are significantly different (P < 0.05).