Table 1 Body weight, carcass weight and proportion of carcass elements of Pharaoh and Japanese quails slaughtered at 6 weeks of age.

Trait	Genotype		Sex		SEM	P values
Trait	Pharaoh quail	Japanese quail	Male	Female	SEM	G	S	G x S
Body weight (g)	169.65^a	142.45^b	150.70	161.40*	2.830	< 0.001	0.002	0.127
Carcass weight (g)	118.00^a	100.89^b	106.96	111.93*	1.902	< 0.001	0.038	0.003
Carcass yield (%)	69.66	70.81	70.98	69.49	0.490	0.207	0.104	0.014
Breast muscle (%)	24.16^b	26.29^a	25.05	25.40	0.312	0.001	0.507	0.136
Leg muscle (%)	16.37^b	18.65^a	17.21	17.82	0.273	< 0.001	0.151	0.937
Abdominal fat (%)	0.00^b	0.67^a	0.32	0.35	0.060	< 0.001	0.686	0.686
Skin with fat (%)	14.74^a	12.81^b	14.60	12.95*	0.412	0.006	0.017	0.096
Wings with skin (%)	9.50^a	8.90^b	9.15	9.26	0.387	0.005	0.594	0.002
Neck without skin (%)	3.54^a	3.10^b	3.28	3.36	0.120	0.020	0.657	0.210
Carcass remains (%)	31.69^a	29.58^b	30.39	30.86	0.365	< 0.001	0.762	0.064

S sex; G genotype; S × G interaction between genotype and sex, SEM standard error of the mean. n = 20 for genotype or sex, 10 males and 10 females within a given genotype.
^a,bAre the means with different superscripts are statistically different between Pharaoh and Japanese quail P value < 0.05; * statistical differences between males and females P value < 0.05.

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