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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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 con...

Table of Contents:

• An Introduction to Modelling in the Animal Sciences / T.R. Morris
• Scientific Progress and Mathematical Modelling : Different Approaches to Modelling Animal Systems / J. France and J. Dijkstra
• Basic Concepts Describing Animal Growth and Feed Intake / N.S. Ferguson
• The Effects of Social Stressors on the Performance of Growing Pigs / I.J. Wellock, G.C. Emmans and I. Kyriazakis
• Modelling Populations for Purposes of Optimization / R.M. Gous and E.T. Berhe
• Advancements in Empirical Models for Prediction and Prescription / W.B. Roush
• The Problem of Predicting the Partitioning of Scarce Resources during Sickness and Health in Pigs / I. Kyriazakis and F.B. Sandberg
• Nutrient Flow Models, Energy Transactions and Energy Feed Systems / J. van Milgen
• Evaluating Animal Genotypes through Model Inversion / A.B. Doeschl-Wilson, P.W. Knap and B.P. Kinghorn
• Considerations for Representing Micro-environmental Conditions in Simulation Models for Broiler Chickens / O.A. Blanco and R.M. Gous
• Using Physiological Models to Define Environmental Control Strategies / M.A. Mitchell
• Modelling Egg Production in Laying Hens / S.A. Johnston and R.M. Gous
• Comparison of Pig Growth Models : the Genetic Point of View / P. Luiting and P.W. Knap
• Mechanistic Modelling at the Metabolic Level : a Model of Metabolism in the Sow as an Example / J.P. McNamara
• The Place of Models in the New Technologies of Production Systems / D.M. Green and D.J. Parsons.