The development of a sex‐linked slow‐feathering white leghorn strain by gene transfer from an Indian indigenous breed

Abstract

1. Breeding techniques were used to transfer an economically important physiological character dependent on a single pair of alleles from an indigenous breed (Kadakanath) to the White Leghorn.

2. The mating procedure used to develop a sex‐linked, slow‐feathering strain of White Leghorn by these means is described and it is shown that using the simplest genetic and breeding techniques productivity can quickly be improved.