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Poult Sci ; 97(1): 227-235, 2018 Jan 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29121242

ABSTRACT

There has been much recent interest in mathematical developments for the analysis of growth in poultry. In this paper, we present a sinusoidal function to describe the evolution of growth as a function of time based on real life experiments. The function was evaluated with regard to its ability to describe the relationship between body weight and age in broilers and was compared to 4 standard growth functions: Gompertz, logistic, Lopez, and Richards. In order to estimate the model parameters, we adopted a global optimization method based on a direct search method instead of using gradient-based techniques. The results of this study show that both the sinusoidal function and the direct search method precisely describe the growth dynamics of broiler chickens. Fitting the growth functions to different data profiles nearly always led to the same or less maximized log-likelihood values for the sinusoidal equation, which is an indication of its superiority in describing growth data from broiler chickens.


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Chickens/growth & development , Weight Gain , Algorithms , Animals , Body Weight , Female , Male , Models, Biological
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