Data/hora: 05/06/2024 09:01:59

Provedor de dados: | 2
País: | Brazil
Título: | A sinusoidal equation as an alternative to classical growth functions to describe growth profiles in turkeys
Autores: | Kuhi, Hassan Darmani; Lopez, Secundino; France, James; Mohit, Ardeshir; Shabanpour, Arezu; Hosssein-Zadeh, Navid Ghavi; Falahi, Saeed.
Data: | 2019-06-25
Ano: | 2019
Palavras-chave: | Growth functions; Sinusoidal equation; Turkeys.
Resumo: | Because of the relatively long growing cycle and the high cost of research into turkey production and nutrition, the potential benefits from modelling growth in this avian species are considerable. Though there are many studies aimed at evaluating animal growth models, the number of studies targeting growth models in turkeys is quite limited. In this paper we present a sinusoidal function to describe the evolution of growth in turkeys as a function of time based on data published by Aviagen. The new function was evaluated with regard to its ability to describe the relationship between body weight and age in turkeys and was compared to four standard growth functions: the Gompertz, logistic, Lopez, and Richards. The results of this study show that the new sinusoidal function precisely describes the growth dynamics of turkeys. Fitting the functions to different data profiles nearly always led to the same or less maximized log-likelihood values for the sinusoidal equation, indicating its suitability in describing growth data from turkeys.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciAnimSci/article/view/45990

10.4025/actascianimsci.v41i1.45990

Editor: | Editora da Universidade Estadual de Maringá
Relação: | http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/ActaSciAnimSci/article/view/45990/pdf
Formato: | application/pdf

Fonte:

Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences; v. 41 (2019): Publicação Contínua; e45990

Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences; v. 41 (2019): Publicação Contínua; e45990

1807-8672

1806-2636

Fonte:

Direitos autorais 2019 Acta Scientiarum. Animal Sciences

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0