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ABSTRACT
Four different breeds of rabbits New Zealand white (NZW), Chinchilla (CHN), were reared at post-weaning to examined for the influence of genotypes on body weight and morphometric traits performance. Body weight and morphometric traits were measured weekly. The traits measured were BL (Body Length), BW (Body weight), EL (Ear length), FLL (Fore Limb length), HC (Head Circumference), HG (Heart girth), HLL (Hind Limb Length), HW (Height at Withers), RL (Rabbit Height), TL (Tail Length). The data obtained were subjected to analysis of variance and phenotypic correlations between body weight and morphometric traits as well as among morphometric traits were estimated. The results indicated that genotype had significant (p<0.01) influence on body weight and other morphometric traits measured, with NZW, CHN and Dutch genotype showing superiority in body weight and other morphometric traits than other genotype studied at all ages. The mean taken across 16 weeks were found not to be significant, except for week 2 which had a high level of significant which was less than 1% (p<0.01). It was concluded that NZW and CHN had a significant higher performance in body weight and morphometric traits in the study area and thus should be recommended to farmers to meet protein requirement of individuals in the area of this study.
