Table 3. Body weight (BW) of male and female KNC varieties including KNC black (KNC_L), KNC white (KNC_W), KNC yellowish brown (KNC_Y), KNC reddish brown (KNC_R) and HIL varieties including HIL black (HIL_L), HIL white (HIL_W), HIL yellowish brown(HIL_Y), HIL grayish brown (HIL_G) at hatching, 8, 16 and 32 weeks of age

Parameters	KNC_L	KNC_W	KNC_Y	KNC_R	P-value1
Male
BW_hatching (g)	38.8±4.1	39.8±3.1	40.5±2.9	40.0±3.6	0.4818*
BW_8 wks (kg)	0.86±0.09	0.85±0.11	0.82±0.10	0.81±0.09	0.3563*
BW_16 wks (kg)	1.96±0.25a	1.67±0.14b	1.82±0.18ab	1.80±0.18ab	0.0002*
BW_32 wks (kg)	2.58±0.33a	2.16±0.27b	2.48±0.30a	2.33±0.30ab	0.0005*
Female
BW_hatching (g)	38.8±3.5	39.5±3.2	40.2±3.3	38.4±4.8	0.5208*
BW_8 wks (kg)	0.72±0.09	0.71±0.06	0.69±0.10	0.64±0.06	0.0520+
BW_16 wks (kg)	1.54±0.17a	1.33±0.14b	1.44±0.21ab	1.36±0.12ab	0.0069*
BW_32 wks (kg)	1.82±0.24	1.63±0.21	1.69±0.23	1.67±0.18	0.1000*
	HIL_L	HIL_W	HIL_Y	HIL_G	P-value
Male
BW_hatching (g)	37.5±2.7bc	39.1±3.4ab	42.1±2.5a	33.0±2.1c	<.0001*
BW_8 wks (kg)	0.82±0.07a	0.75±0.05a	0.74±0.19ab	0.66±0.08b	0.0300+
BW_16 wks (kg)	1.68±0.10	1.67±0.13	1.59±0.32	1.41±0.19	0.0607*
BW_32 wks (kg)	2.07±0.26ab	2.08±0.15a	2.02±0.47ab	1.71±0.22b	0.0340+
Female
BW_hatching (g)	34.8±3.0ab	36.4±1.5a	40.7±5.5ab	34.2±2.0b	0.0312+
BW_8 wks (kg)	0.62±0.01	0.62±0.01	0.58±0.01	0.57±0.01	0.4462*
BW_16 wks (kg)	1.27±0.21	1.24±0.10	1.16±0.08	1.12±0.10	0.0807*
BW_32 wks (kg)	1.68±0.22a	1.60±0.20ab	1.41±0.19ab	1.38±0.19b	0.0049*

P-values indicate the variation in each parameters across the varieties compared by ANOVA (*) or Welch’s ANOVA (⁺).
Within a row, value with different superscripts differ (Scheffe’s test or Games-Howell test, P<0.05).