Prediction of body weight from linear body measurements in sheep

S Kumar, SP Dahiya, ZS Malik… - Indian Journal of Animal …, 2018 - indianjournals.com
Measurements of body conformation in sheep are of value in judging the quantitative
characteristics of meat and also helpful in developing suitable selection criterion. Data on …

Using different single-step strategies to improve the efficiency of genomic prediction on body measurement traits in pig

H Song, J Zhang, Q Zhang, X Ding - Frontiers in genetics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In genomic prediction, single-step method has been demonstrated to outperform multi-step
methods. This study investigated the efficiency of genomic prediction for seven body …

Possibilities of using morphometrics characteristics as a tool for body weight prediction in Turkish Hair Goats (Kilkeci).

MA Cam, M Olfaz, E Soydan - 2010 - cabidigitallibrary.org
This study was conducted to determine the body weight, body measurements, body
condition score and relationship between body weight and body measurements in adult …

Estimation of mature live weight using some body measurements in Karya sheep

O Yilmaz, I Cemal, O Karaca - Tropical Animal Health and Production, 2013 - Springer
The aim of this study was to determine models which will be used for the estimation of adult
live weights based on some body measurements using multiple regression model in Karya …

Path coefficient and path Analysis of body weight and biometric traits of Yankasa lambs

A Yakubu - Slovak Journal of Animal Science, 2010 - office.sjas-journal.org
Direct and indirect effects of seven predictor variables (withers height, body length, heart
girth, shoulder width, head width, rump width and rump length) on body weight of 92 …

[PDF][PDF] Estimation of body weight from body measurements in four breeds of Iranian sheep.

FH Shirzeyli, A Lavvaf, A Asadi - Songklanakarin Journal of Science …, 2013 - thaiscience.info
The aim of the current study was to identify the relationship between body measurements
and body weight in four breeds of Iranian sheep (Mehrbani, Zandi, Shaal and Macoei) …

[PDF][PDF] Prediction of live body weight using length and girth measurements for pigs in rural Western Kenya

FK Mutua, CE Dewey, SM Arimi… - Journal of swine …, 2011 - cgspace.cgiar.org
Objectives: To develop and validate a pig weight-estimation method using body length and
girth measurements. Methods: In a random sample of 288 smallholder pig farms in Western …

[PDF][PDF] Different body measurement and body weight prediction of jamuna basin sheep in Bangladesh.

MA Sun, MA Hossain, T Islam, MM Rahman… - 2020 - researchgate.net
The aim of this study was to estimate different body measurements and derive prediction
equation for live weight of Jamuna basin sheep using different body measurement. A total of …

[PDF][PDF] Fixing collinearity instability in the estimation of body weight from morpho-biometrical traits of West African Dwarf goats

A Yakubu - Trakia J. Sci, 2009 - researchgate.net
Morphobiometric studies were conducted on 58 West African dwarf kid goats of both sexes
in order to determine the problem of collinearity in body weight estimation. There were no …

Comparison of artificial neural network and regression models for prediction of body weight in Raini Cashmere goat

M Khorshidi-Jalali, M Mohammadabadi… - 2019 - rep.btsau.edu.ua
The artificial neural networks (ANN) are the learning algorithms and mathematical models,
which mimic the information processing ability of human brain and can be used to non linear …