Türkiye’nin doğu ve güneydoğu anadolu bölgesi’nde yetiştirilen eşeklerin morfolojik özellikleri

This study was carried out to determine the morphological traits, distributions of body coat colour and body measurements of donkeys raised in the East and Southeast of Turkey by comparing with other donkey breeds of the world. For this purpose a total of 124 male and 70 female donkeys were measured. Descriptive statistics results yielded the following means: for withers height was 102.3 cm, height at rump 104.3 cm, body length 105.2 cm, heart girth circumference 113.5 cm, chest depth 45.7 cm, chest width 29.5 cm, cannon circumference 13.6 cm, head length 48.7 cm and ear length 21.9 cm respectively. In this study the body coat color frequencies among the donkeys were: mouse gray 31.4%, white 24.7%, black 23.7%, and brown 20.2%.

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