Profil morfologi dan pendugaan jarak genetik sapi Simmental hasil persilangan

Abstract

Research was done to study the profile of morphological characteristics of Simmental cross cattle in West Sumatera on several age categories and estimating the genetic distance compared to Simmental pure breed based on morphological parameters. Several morphological parameters of the 82 of Simmental cross cattle in West Sumatera and the 23 of Simmental pure breed has been measured. To analyze morphological data and the genetic distance a discriminant analysis was done. Based on statistical tests (t-test), body length, body height, hip height, hip width, chest circumference, chest width, chest depth, head length, and head height had significant difference (P Key Words: Morphological, Genetic Distance, Simmental Cattle, Cross, West Sumatera