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Residual feed intake breeding value associated with growth, carcass traits, meat quality, bone properties and humoral immunity in Japanese quail

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Improved feed efficiency (FE) is one of the most important achievements in animal breeding programs. The present investigation aimed to determine the phenotypic correlations of residual feed intake (RFI) breeding value with some traits in growing Japanese quail. A total of 48 birds (24 males and 24 females) were selected from 220 quail chicks divided into three classes based on breeding values (BV) for RFI including low (LBV; n = 16), medium (MBV; n = 16), and high-BV (HBV; n = 16) were used to test FE. The effects of three groups of BV on the studied traits including carcass traits, meat quality, humoral immunity, and bone properties were evaluated. The BV for RFI was positively correlated with feed conversion ratio (FCR) and feed intake (FI) but not with metabolic BW (MBW0.75). Live body weight, carcass, breast, and thigh weight in the LBV-RFI group were significantly greater than those in the HBV-RFI group. The BV for RFI had a negative correlation with live body weight and thigh weight. Our findings suggested that the selection of LBV-RFI quails may be useful to increase live body weight without any adverse impact on meat quality and bone properties, and live body weight can be implemented in breeding programs as an indirect selection indicator for improvement of FE in quails.

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Mojdeh Mahmoudi Zarandi and Mohammad Rokouei conceived and designed the experiment. Mojdeh Mahmoudi Zarandi, Hadi Faraji-Arough and Mohammad Rokouei collected the experiments data and performed laboratory experiments. Hadi Faraji-Arough performed the statistical analysis and created Tables. Mojdeh Mahmoudi Zarandi interpreted the data and wrote the manuscript. Mehran Mehri revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Mahmoudi Zarandi, M., Faraji-Arough, H., Rokouei, M. et al. Residual feed intake breeding value associated with growth, carcass traits, meat quality, bone properties and humoral immunity in Japanese quail. Trop Anim Health Prod 55, 139 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11250-023-03527-1

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