Animal Trait Correlation Database
Chicken Traits with Heritability Records
Trait names
Number of heritability records in this database
Abdominal fat percentage
13
Abdominal fat weight
16
Age at first egg
11
Albumen height
7
Albumen weight
1
Antibody titer to Newcastle disease virus
1
Arachidic acid content
1
Arachidonic acid content
1
Ascites syndrome incidence
2
AST to ALT ratio
3
Atretic follicle number
1
Average daily gain
10
Avian influenza susceptibility
2
Back weight
3
Blood alanine transaminase level
3
Blood albumin level
3
Blood albumin to globulin ratio
4
Blood aspartate transaminase level
3
Blood bile acid level
4
Blood creatinine level
3
Blood gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase level
3
Blood globulin level
4
Blood total protein level
3
Blood uric acid level
4
Body circumference
1
Body depth
2
Body slope length
3
Body weight
96
Body weight gain
7
Breast muscle percentage
5
Breast muscle weight
7
Breast percentage
2
Breast weight
2
Carcass fat content
1
Carcass fat content, dry matter basis
1
Carcass weight
14
Chest width
3
Cholesterol level
3
Comb height
4
Comb length
1
Comb weight
2
Deep pectoral myopathy
2
Docosahexaenoic acid content
1
Docosanoic acid content
1
Docosatetraenoic acid content
1
Docosatrienoic acid content
1
Dressing percentage
2
Drip loss
1
Drumstick and thigh muscle percentage
2
Drumstick and thigh muscle weight
2
Drumstick muscle weight
1
Drumstick weight
4
Egg number
35
Egg weight
35
Eggshell color
6
Eggshell cuticle coverage
3
Eggshell effective layer thickness
1
Eggshell mammillary density
1
Eggshell mammillary layer thickness
1
Eggshell shape
7
Eggshell stiffness
4
Eggshell strength
14
Eggshell thickness
9
Eggshell weight
1
Eicosadienoic acid content
1
Eicosatrienoic acid content
1
Eicosenoic acid content
1
Erucic acid content
1
Fatty acid atherogenic index
1
Fatty acid average chain length
1
Fatty acid double bond index
1
Fatty acid peroxidability index
1
Fatty acid unsaturated index
1
Feather density
1
Feathering
3
Feed conversion ratio
7
Feed intake
8
Feet weight
1
Femur area
1
Femur length
1
Fowl typhoid susceptibility
2
Gizzard percentage
1
Gizzard weight
10
Glucose level
3
Haugh units
4
HDL cholesterol level
3
HDL/LDL ratio
3
Head and neck weight
1
Head weight
2
Heart percentage
1
Heart weight
8
Heptadecanoic acid content
1
Intestine length
3
Intramuscular fat content
1
Intramuscular fat percentage
3
Keel length
4
Lauric acid content
1
LDL cholesterol level
3
Linoleic acid content
1
Linolenic acid content
1
Liver fat percentage
2
Liver percentage
3
Liver weight
10
Lung percentage
1
Lung weight
1
Meat color
6
Metabolic body weight
1
Monounsaturated fatty acid content
1
Muscle anserine content
1
Muscle carnosine content
1
Muscle fiber density
2
Muscle fiber diameter
1
Muscle pH
3
Myristic acid content
1
Neck weight
2
Non-esterified fatty acid level
1
Oleic acid content
1
Palmitic acid content
1
Palmitoleic acid content
1
Pectoralis major weight
1
Pelvis breadth
2
Pentadecanoic acid content
1
Polyunsaturated fatty acid content
1
Pre-ovulatory follicle number
1
Proventriculus weight
4
Residual feed intake
9
Saturated fatty acid content
1
Semen volume
1
Shank circumference
12
Shank length
18
Shank weight
2
Skin color
3
Skin percentage
2
Skin weight
2
Small yellow follicle number
1
Spleen weight
3
Stearic acid content
1
Testes weight
3
Thigh muscle weight
1
Thigh weight
2
Tibia breaking strength
1
Tibia length
1
Tibia weight
1
Triglyceride level
4
Unsaturated fatty acid content
1
Viral clearance
1
Viral load, Newcastle Disease Virus
2
Visceral peritoneum pigmentation
1
VLDL cholesterol level
2
White striping
3
Wing weight
3
Wooden breast
3
Yolk color
2
Yolk water content
1
Yolk weight
1
620 heritability records found on 155 traits.
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