Walter A. Becker

TL;DR: Abdominal fat weight was a better (higher r2) predictor of total fat, total fat minus abdominal fat, percent carcass fat, and percent intestinal fat, than percent backskinFat, and selection against percent abdominal fat would probably result in a reduction of fat in other locations and little change in fat free live weight.

TL;DR: Male chickens from a purebred male broiler selection line were grown and slaughtered weekly from 1 to 69 days of age to investigate growth patterns and growth rate of abdominal fat deposition was slower than live weight after 19 days and carcass weight after 15 days.

TL;DR: The results obtained were similar to those found previously in this laboratory with one strain of broilers, with no statistically significant differences between strains at the 5% level.

TL;DR: The heritabilities indicate that it should be possible to reduce abdominal fat by selection, and the genetic correlations signify that a method has to be devised to increase body weight while simultaneously reducing abdominal fat weight.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of feeding two levels of energy in starter diets (3135 kcal metabolizable energy (ME)/kg low energy and 3410 kcal ME/kg high energy) from 0 to 28 days and finishing diets from 28 to 56 days was studied.