Resource allocation theory applied to farm animal production /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2009.
• Subjects: Resource allocation.; Livestock productivity > Mathematical models.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Animal Genetics and Breeding, (New March 2000); Animal Reproduction and Embryology, (New March 2000); Animal Behaviour.; Animal Nutrition (Physiology); Animal Nutrition (Production Responses); Animal Physiology and Biochemistry (Excluding Nutrition); Animal Immunology, (New March 2000); Animal Health and Hygiene (General); Animal Welfare.; Genetic Engineering, Gene Transfer and Transgenics, (New June 2002); Cell, Tissue and Embryo Manipulation, (New June 2002); Mathematics and Statistics.; Cattle.; Pigs.; Animal behaviour.; Animal breeding.; Animal feeding.; Animal health.; Animal production.; Animal welfare.; Behaviour.; Domestic animals.; Energy cost of maintenance.; Energy cost of production.; Feed intake.; Feeds.; Genetic engineering.; Growth rate.; Heat stress.; Immune response.; Immunity.; Livestock.; Metabolism.; Models.; Nutrition physiology.; Poultry.; Reproduction.; Resources.; Selection.; Stress.; Stress response.; Electronic books.
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• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 335 pages) : illustrations, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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This book is about resource allocation matters with the aim to further development thoughts and models on resource allocation applied to livestock production. It contains 18 chapters divided into 4 parts which discuss resources and resource allocation patterns, trade-offs, metabolic constraints to resource allocation and the process of homeorhesis with a special emphasis to homeorhesis during heat stress; the relationship between food intake and resources allocated to body maintenance, growth, reproduction and the immune response; the consequences of high production efficiency in pigs, poultry and dairy cattle and the consequences of improved production by means of biological engineering and options to include resource allocation matters in the breeding objective, animal welfare and in resource allocation modelling.