The development of a sex-linked slow-feathering White Leghorn strain by gene transfer from an Indian indigenous breed.

Breeding techniques were used to transfer an economically important physiological character dependent on a single pair of alleles from an indigenous breed (Kadakanath) to the White Leghorn. The mating procedure used to develop a sex-linked, slow-feathering strain of White Leghorn by these means is described and it is shown that using the simplest genetic and breeding techniques productivity can quickly be improved.