Caracterización biométrica y estimación del peso corporal en bovinos criollos en la comunidad de Chuñuranra–Huancavelica (Perú)

96 creole cattle from Huancavelica region (Peru) of different ages and sexes were studied aiming to determinate phenotypic correlations between body weight (PC) and biometric measurements: Width (HW) and head length (HL); width (ChW), length (ChL), perimeter (ChP) and chest height (ChH); width (CrW), length (CrL) and croup height (CrH), back lumbar distance (BLD); length (BL) and full body length (FBW), cross height (CroH) and abdominal perimeter (AP). These traits were adjusted in a first-degree multiple linear regression to obtain a PC prediction equation. Phenotypic correlations were high and significant (p <0.001) between PC-AG (0.57), PC-PT (0.58), PC-LAC (0.60), PC-ACR (0.56) and PC-PA (0.58). The PC prediction can be done by the equation: PC =-321.043 + 1.82 AP + 0.78928 BL + 1.46924 CroH. AP, BL and CroH can be useful and serve as good indicative of PC of the creole cattle.