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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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 r...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / W.M. Rauw
• Resource Allocation Patterns / D.S. Glazier
• Trade-offs / D.S. Glazier
• Metabolic Constraints to Resource Allocation / D.E. Naya and L.D. Bacigalupe
• Homeorhesis During Heat Stress / R.J. Collier, S.W. Limesand, M.L. Rhoads, R.P. Rhoads and L.H. Baumgard
• Residual Feed Intake / R.M. Herd
• Allocation of Resources to Maintenance / P.W. Knap
• Allocation of Resources to Growth / C.T. Whittemore
• Genetic Size-scaling / St C.S. Taylor
• Allocation of Resources to Reproduction / G.B. Martin, D. Blache and I.H. Williams
• Allocation of Resources to Immune Responses / I.G. Colditz
• Selection for High Production in Pigs / P.W. Knap and W.M. Rauw
• Selection for High Production in Poultry / P.B. Siegel, C.F. Honaker and W.M. Rauw
• Selection for High Production in Dairy Cattle / R.F. Veerkamp, J.J. Windig, M.P.L. Calus, W. Ouweltjes, Y. de Haas and B. Beerda
• Consequences of Biological Engineering for Resource Allocation and Welfare / D.M. Broom
• Breeding Goals to Optimize Production Efficiency / A.F. Groen
• Robustness / P.W. Knap
• Modelling of Resource Allocation Patterns / N.C. Friggens and E.H. van der Waaij.