HERITABILITY ESTIMATES OF SOME BODY MEASUREMENTS IN NILI RAVI BUFFALOES.

Keywords: body measurements; heritability; Nili Ravi buffalo; variance components EN body measurements heritability Nili Ravi buffalo variance components INTRODUCTION Morphological evaluation of different breeds of dairy cattle and buffaloes is still considered important from selection point of view. The same has been pointed out in a published book on buffaloes "Buffalo the Animal of Future" that the information on the body measurements of buffaloes in Pakistan is scanty (Khan, 2009). Tail length: The means reported for Nili Ravi buffaloes by Mehboob (1996) as 104.65±16.26 cm and for Iraqi buffaloes as 106.0 ± 0.9 cm (Avadesian et al., 2017) are similar to current study mean. [Extracted from the article]