Table 1. Distribution of early-and late-feathering chickens and genotype frequency of feathering gene in fundamental Korean native chicken population

Male Female
    Phenotype distribution Total number of chicks 143 414
No. of early-feathering chicks 88 341
No. of late-feathering chicks 55 73
    Genotype frequency KK 0.047
Kk 0.338
kk 0.615
K- 0.176
k- 0.824
Gene frequency K 0.186
k 0.814