Studi keragaman fenotipik dan pendugaan jarak genetik antar domba lokal di Indonesia

Abstract

This research was to study the morphological characteristic and estimating the genetic distance between local sheep in Indonesia with discriminant and canonical analyses. Observed sheep breeds were thirrtailed sheep from Jonggol (Bogor), Gamt sheep h m Ma~gawati (West Java) and fat-tailed sheq, h m Madura Island, Lndramayu (Central Java), Sumbawa Island, Rote Island, Kisar Island (Maluku) and Donggala Island. The number of sheep were randomly collected h m local farmers for 533 heads and h m unit of ranch was 285 heads. Body dimension studied were body weight, body length, wither height, chest width, chest depth, chest circumference, skull length, skull width, skull height, tail lenght, tail width, ear length and ear width.