Live weight and some morphological characteristics of Turkish Tazi (Sighthound) raised in Province of Konya in Turkey

Yilmaz O., Coskun F., ERTUĞRUL M.

JOURNAL OF LIVESTOCK SCIENCE, ss.98-103, 2012 (ESCI) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF LIVESTOCK SCIENCE
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.98-103
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

This study was carried out to determine the distributions of body coat colour and the body measurements of the Turkish Tazi (Sighthound) raised in province of Konya by comparing with some other Sighthound breeds from different regions of Turkey and UK. To this end, a total of 41 (18 male and 23 female) Tazi dogs was analyzed with the Minitab 16 statistical software program using ANOVA and Student's t-Test. Descriptive statistics for live weight 18.4 +/- 0.31, withers height 62.0 +/- 0.44, height at rump 62.1 +/- 0.50, body length 60.7 +/- 0.55, heart girth circumference 63.9 +/- 0.64, chest depth 23.1 +/- 0.21, abdomen depth 13.9 +/- 0.21, chest width 17.4 +/- 0.25, haunch width 16.4 +/- 0.18, thigh width 22.3 +/- 0.26, tail length 45.7 +/- 0.37, limb length 38.9 +/- 0.31, cannon circumference 10.2 +/- 0.11, head length 24.0 +/- 0.36 and ear length 12.8 +/- 0.19 cm respectively. In this study the distributions of body coat colour of the sampled Tazi, as percentages, for black was 48.8%, dun 17.1%, brown 19.5%, white 7.3% and piebald 7.3% respectively.