The Inheritance of Phenotype Character of Feather Color and Growth of Hybrid Chicken (Gallus gallus gallus, Linnaeus 1758) Derived from Crossing of F1 ? Kamper and ? Kambro

Abstract

The low domestic production of local chicken meat production needs an alternative local chicken line. Faculty of Biology UGM innovates to produce a new breed of local chicken line called GAMA AYAM by combining the phenotype of pelung, broiler, and layer chicken with selective breeding methods. This research is to determine the phenotype character inheritance and growth of hybrid chicken. The method used in this research was crossing chickens and observing in semi intensive cage in Pusat Inovasi Agroteknologi (PIAT), Kalitirto, Berbah, Sleman, Yogyakarta. Measurement of hybrid chicken included quantitative data: weight of chicken and Feed Convertion Ratio (FCR). While qualitative data is feather color. Quantitative and qualitative data measurements performed every week for seven week. Data analysis was performed by comparing the body weight of hybrid chickens, pelung, broilers and layers at zero weeks and seven weeks using One Way Anova and Tukey with 95% confidence level (p = 0.05). The result of body weight analysis showed that there was a real difference, the group of hybrid chickens was higher than that of pelung and layer chickens so that the hybrid chicken produced was declared successful. The average weight of hybrid chickens in the seventh week was 958.20 ± 16.651 grams and FCR was 1.34. The color phenotype characters of hybrid chicken feathers are white (qI-qi), a combination of white and brown (spotting) (qI-qi/qB-qb), blirik combination of black, white and brown (qI-qi/ qE-qe+-qe/qB-qb) and brown color with white feather base (qB-qb).