Mechanistic modelling in pig and poultry production /

• Corporate Author: Recent Advances in Pig and Poultry Modelling
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Swine > Mathematical models.; Poultry industry > Mathematical models.; Meat Producing Animals.; Egg Producing Animals.; Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Animal Nutrition (General); Animal Nutrition (Physiology); Animal Physiology and Biochemistry (Excluding Nutrition); Prion, Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens of Animals, (New March 2000); Mathematics and Statistics.; Fowls.; Pigs.; Animal production.; Broilers.; Egg production.; Energy metabolism.; Environmental control.; Feed intake.; Feeds.; Genotypes.; Growth.; Growth models.; Hens.; Mathematical models.; Metabolism.; Microenvironments.; Models.; Nutrients.; Populations.; Poultry.; Prediction.; Simulation models.; Sows.; Stress.; Stress factors.; Swine diseases.; Technology.; Zoology.; Electronic books.
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• Item Description: Papers from a conference entitled Recent Advances in Pig and Poultry Modelling, held at the Ithala Game Reserve in KwaZulu-Natal from 13-16 April 2005.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 331 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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These proceedings contain 15 papers on the recent advances in pig and poultry mechanistic modelling. Notable among the papers is the consideration of new components of the animal production process, such as social stressors and disease. Understanding of some new systems such as the physiological control of egg production in hens by modelling is the given focus in one paper. The topics covered in the other papers include the following: introduction to modelling in the animal sciences, different approaches to modelling animal systems; basic concepts describing animal growth and feed intake; modelling populations for purposes of optimization; advancements in empirical models for prediction and prescription; nutrient flow models, energy transactions and energy feed systems; evaluation of animal genotypes through model inversion; considerations for representing microenvironmental conditions in simulation models for broiler chickens; use of physiological models to define environmental control strategies; comparison of pig growth models from the genetic point of view; model of metabolism in the sow; and place of models in the new technologies of production systems.