Qualitative And Quantitative Traits of Kokok Balenggek Chicken, the Rare Indigeneous Chicken in West Sumatera



Firda Arlina(1*), Hafil Abbas(2), Sarbaini Anwar(3), Jamsari Jamsari(4)

(1) Faculty of Animal Science, University of Andalas, Padang, West Sumatera, 25163, Indonesia
(2) Faculty of Animal Science, University of Andalas, Padang, West Sumatera, 25163, Indonesia
(3) Faculty of Animal Science, University of Andalas, Padang, West Sumatera, 25163, Indonesia
(4) Faculty of Agricultural, University of Andalas, Padang, West Sumatera, 25163, Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


Kokok Balenggek chicken is one of the rare indigenous chickens in West Sumatera are unique as they have a very nice song with multilevel sound. An experiment was conducted to identify the qualitative and quantitative traits of Kokok Balenggek chicken in West Sumatera. A total of 111 Kokok Balenggek chicken were characterized for qualitative and quantitative traits. The qualitative traits base on color of feather, plumage, ick feather, feather pattern, shank colour, and comb types. The quantitative traits studied were body weight and body size of Kokok Balenggek chicken. The result indicated that the predominant of qualitative traits of Kokok Balenggek chicken are coloured (ii), wild type pattern (e+), plain feather (ss), golden ick feather (ss), yellow shank coloured (Id_) and single comb (pp). Based on the type of plumage color of Kokok Balenggek chicken have shown predominantly on Biriang (52,25%). Variations were found on quantitative traits such as body weight, number of crow, shank diameter and neck length. 


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Kokok Balenggek chicken, nice song, qualitative, quantitative trait

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