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T1 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF BIOMETERIC TRAITS IN CHOLISTANI CATTLE
A1 W. A. Shah
A1 N. Ahmad M. Saadullah
A1 M. E. Babar
A1 T.N. Pasha
A1 S. Ahmad
A1 A. Ali
A1 Nasrullah
A1 M. Z. Farooq
A1 A. H. Saleem
JF Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences
JO JAPS
SN 1018-7081
VO 28
IS 3
SP 940
OP 944
YR 2018
FD 2018/06/01
DO DOI NA
AB Data on 18 biometric traits of lactating Cholistani cows ( N=325; age, 4-6 years) were recorded and analyzed through principal component analysis . These animals were maintained at Livestock Experimental Station Jugaitpeer Distric Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. The average values of these traits indicated that Cholistani cows are of medium type. Factor analysis with promax rotation revealed that head width (HW), face length ( FL), eye to eye space ( EE) and neck length ( NL) were 83.618 % of the total variation. Head width (HW) explained 56.817% variation in the general body conformation. It showed significant positive high loading of body length (BL) and heart girth (HG) . The results suggested that PCA may be used with minimum number of biometric traits of body conformation.
K1 Cholistani cattle, Principal component analysis, Traits, Body length, Breeding program.
PB Pakistan Agricultural Scientists Forum
LK https://thejaps.org.pk/AbstractView.aspx?mid=2018-JAPS-331