?enol Çelik and Orhan Y?lmaz
Keywords: Dog, live weight, body measurement, path analysis
Abstract: The direct and indirect effects of sizes of withers height, rump height, body length, chest peripheral, head length and leg length on live weight of dogs were investigated by path analysis. In this study, the body sizes of dogs between 1 and 6 aged were used. According to the results of analysis, it was determined that the relationships between all body sizes effecting live weight of dog were positive and significant(P<0.05 and P<0.01). The highest correlations at 5 aged dogs were determined between live weight and respectively rump height and withers height (r =0.799 and r =0.796). The direct effects of withers height, rump height, body length, chest peripheral, head length and leg length on live weight at 6 aged dogs were determined, respectively as 51.250, 17.748, 34.823, 15.197, 16.934% and 24.155%. The indirect effects of withers height, rump height, body length, chest peripheral, head length and leg on live weight were determined respectively as 14.333, 8.875%, 8.400, 6.833 and 10.275%
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