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A Method to Predict the Food Intake of Domestic Animals from Birth to Maturity as a Function of Time
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The pattern of food intake, appropriately scaled to mature size, with time is shown to depend only on the values of B* andQ, and the rate of intake of a food with a known energy content can be predicted for a known animal as a function of time only.About:
This article is published in Journal of Theoretical Biology.The article was published on 1997-05-21. It has received 111 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Immature animal.read more
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Evaluation of the parameters needed to describe the overall growth, the chemical growth, and the growth of feathers and breast muscles of broilers
TL;DR: An experiment was carried out to collect data suitable for testing methods used to describe the potential growth and body composition curves of broilers, and the changes in weight of feathers and breast meat with time were described in terms of the Gompertz growth function, which described the data very well.
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On the interpretation of feeding behaviour measures and the use of feeding rate as an indicator of social constraint
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlighted a number of issues associated with the use and interpretation of feeding behavior measures using examples from the literature on rats, cows and pigs, and suggested that an animal kept individually will eat a given amount of food at a preferred rate of eating.
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'Freedom from hunger' and preventing obesity: the animal welfare implications of reducing food quantity or quality
TL;DR: The different arguments behind this controversy over alternative diets for animals are discussed, focusing on two well-researched cases of food-restricted farmed livestock: pregnant sows and broiler breeders.
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Breed and Parity Effects on Energy Balance Profiles Through Lactation: Evidence of Genetically Driven Body Energy Change
N.C. Friggens,P. Berg,P. Theilgaard,I. R. Korsgaard,Klaus Lønne Ingvartsen,Peter Løvendahl,Just Jensen +6 more
TL;DR: The systematic patterns of body energy change through lactation in cows that were kept under stable and sufficient nutritional conditions cannot be accounted for by environmental factors such as constrained intake or condition score at calving, and appear to have a genetic basis.
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Breeding for efficiency in the broiler chicken: A review
TL;DR: This review assesses the consequences of artificial selection on the following traits: digestive efficiency, body composition and utilisation of metabolisable energy for growth and metabolic activity and finds that the digestive system has been subjected to much physical change due to selection, but this has not led to any apparent change in digestion efficiency.