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- Title
Comparative Study on Analysis and Fitting of Pudong Chicken Growth Curve.
- Authors
Lu Xuelin; Zhao Lele; Li Hejun; Xu Dong; Wu Haomin; Xu Weibin
- Abstract
The objective of this paper was to study the growth and development laws of Pudong chicken. The growth curve of Pudong chicken (cock and hen) from 0 to 20 weeks was analyzed and fitted with three models(Gompertz, Logistic and Bertalanffy). It was concluded that the growth curves were appropriately fitted with three models, and fitness degree (R2)in growth data of Pudong chicken were all above 0.992. The Bertalanffy model was the most effective with the highest R2 for cock (R2=0.995) and hen (R2=0.999), respectively. With further analysis of fitted parameters for Logis tic model of cock, 0-3 weeks ’ fitted values were significantly greater than measured values and 4-8 weeks ’ fitted values were lower than measured values. Compared with Logistic model, the values calculated by Gompertz model and Bertalanffy model were more coincident with the practical measuring values. For hens, 0-3 weeks’ fitted values of Logistic model were significantly greater than measured values and 0-2 weeks’ fitted values of Gompertz model were slightly greater than measured values, while the values calculated by Bertalanffy model best matched the observed values from actual measure. The results showed that Bertalanffy model used to estimate the growth weight of Pudong chicken was the best while Logistic model was the worst. So the fitness and analysis of growth curves of Pudong chicken are valid, which may be adopted to predict growth and development laws of Pudong chicken and provide reliable data for precise feeding and breeding.
- Subjects
POULTRY breeding; BIOLOGICAL fitness; COMPARATIVE studies; ANIMAL development; CHICKEN breeds
- Publication
Animal Husbandry & Feed Science, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 3, p174
- ISSN
1943-9911
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.19578/j.cnki.ahfs.2018.03.006