Plumage colour in Padovana chicken breed: growth performance and carcass quality

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Padovana female chickens of two plumage varieties, chamois (PC) and silver (PS) and their cross (PC male × PS female) were reared from 1 d until 200 d of age, when they were slaughtered. PC has light brown feathers with white edge (chamois), PS has white feathers with black edge (silver); PCxPS has silver plumage (cross-S) or completely white plumage (cross-W) at a ratio, at hatching, of 1:2 as cross-S:cross-W. The chickens were kept in a breeder house from May until December. In a population of Padovana chickens, it seems to be a relationship between the colour plumage and body weight until the sexual maturity: from 2 weeks until 6 weeks of age the PC females exhibited a higher daily growth (p

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Rizzi, C. (2018). Plumage colour in Padovana chicken breed: growth performance and carcass quality. Italian Journal of Animal Science, 17(3), 797–803. https://doi.org/10.1080/1828051X.2017.1413598

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