دراسة أبعاد جسم الإبل الشامية (وحيد السنام)‎ في سورية

الملخص EN

This study was conducted in Der-Alhajer research station for improving Shami camel.

This station is belonging to Animal Wealth of Research Administration, AWRA, in the General commission for Scientific Agricultural Research / GCSAR (Syria).

The goal of the study was to describe of Shami camel body dimensions.

Measurements on 29 heads of mature Shami camels were taken at ages ranging from 5 to 14 years during 2011.

Shami camels body dimensions were measured (length of body and neck, circumference of heart and abdominal, height of body at hump and shoulder, distance between shoulders, front leg length of large and small, back leg length of large and small, length and width of the front and back sock, length of tail, the face and ear, distance between eye and nose, distance between eyes, and Animal age).

Addition was recording of sex, and animal body color.

Data was accurated by Excel program, and statistically analyzed using the SAS program (1996).

The general linear model GLM has been applied to analyze the factors variations of sex and body color and age of animal in some the dimensions of the body studied.

The LSM and SE were estimated.

Pearson correlation was carried out between all body dimensions Sudied in Shami camels.

The results showed that there were significant differences (P<0.01) of sex effect.

The males were over than females for traits of neck length, body height at hump and shoulders, di^ance between shoulders, length and width of the front and back socks, and face length, distance between eye and nose and di^ance between eyes.

Also it were found statistically significant (P<0.01) for traits of each body color and distance between eyes.

The effect of mature animal age was highly significant (P<0.01) in each trait of body length and large front leg length.

In addition the correlation values were between moderate to high and ranged from (0.39) to (0.90).

The research concluded that effective of phenotypic selection on abdominal and chest circumference traits at body dimensions improvement of Shami camel.

Furthermore body height at shoulder and distance between shoulders are important for selection criteria to improve body dimensions on Shami camels in Syria.