Table 4.
Estimates of heritabilities and standard errors (SE) (in bold on the diagonal) and of genetic correlations (below the diagonal) and their standard errors (above the diagonal)
BWB | BWC | WMPct | LegQPct | FE | Gain | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BWB | 0.34 (0.02) | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.04 |
BWC | 0.59 | 0.37 (0.03) | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
WMPct | 0.25 | 0.04 | 0.61 (0.03) | 0.05 | 0.05 | 0.05 |
LegQPct | − 0.06 | 0.02 | − 0.39 | 0.60 (0.03) | 0.05 | 0.05 |
FE | 0.02 | 0.03 | − 0.26 | 0.08 | 0.24 (0.01) | 0.05 |
Gain | 0.30 | 0.11 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.18 | 0.22 (0.01) |
Bold characters refer to the esstimates of heritabilities and their standard errors (SE)
BWB body weight recorded in Env B; BWC body weight recorded in Env C; WMPct white meat percentage; LegQPct leg quarter percentage; FE feed efficiency; and Gain: bodyweight gain