This aim of the research was to study the morphological characteristic and estimating genetic distancebetween local chicken and broiler chicken with discriminant and canonical analysis.This research washeld in Faculty of Animal Husbandry, Bogor Agricultural University, Jewelry using 25 sentul chickens, 25 kampongchickens, 25 kedu chickens , 25 pelung chickens and 25 broiler chickens.The variable as the length ofshank, beak length, back length, chest depth and chest width were measured in this study.
The collecteddata were analyzed by using SAS and SPSS package program.Kampung chickens were mixed with sentulchickens (17.60 %) and kedu chickens (17,70 %).
Kedu, kampong, and sentul chickens have a relativelyclose genetic distance compared the genetic distance to pelung chickens with the kampung, sentul, andkedu chickens.Fenogram tree show that there were three separate groups of chickens at the age of eightweeks i.e.
: (1) pelung chickens (2), kedu, kampong, and sentul chickens, (3) broiler chickens.Fenogram treealso shows two separate groups : (1) pelung chickens (2) kedu, kampong, and Sentul chickens (at the age of28 weeks chicken).The crossbreed between kedu and sentul chickens, also have a relatively close geneticdistance.
The phenotypic size of chickens giving a strong influence on the distinction variable of chickengroups were Headwear body length and chest circumference.