Prediction of body weight using body dimensions of Egyptian baladi calves
Abstract: Body dimensions (body length, BL; heart girth, HG and wither height, WH) of Baladi calves were measured and correlated with their relevant body weight (BW) at 1, 6, 12 and 18 month of age (contemporaries). The correlation was determined again overall the entire growth period (from one to 18-months of age) as noncontomporaries. The total number of breeding records was 828 for 46 claves covering three consecutive years from 1997 to 1999. Data were collected from EI-Serw station that belongs to Animal Production Research Institute.
Relative growth rate was high in the first three months of age (49.1. 41.0, and 31.3, respectively), and declined sharply thereafter. Each of the three dimensions, expressed as ratios to BW, decreased over the growth period;
declined in ratio of BL to BW was less than the decreases in the other ratios
Publication year 2001
Pages 2009-2020
Availability location معهد بحوث الانتاج الحيوانى- شارع نادى الصيد- الدقى - الجيزة
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Organization Name
Country Egypt
City Moshtohor
serial title Annals Of Agric. Sc., Moshtohor. Vol. 39 (4). 2009-2020, (2001).
Volume 39 . 4
Department Cattle Breeding Research Department
Author(s) from ARC
Agris Categories Animal husbandry
AGROVOC
TERMS		 Body weight. Calves. Egypt. Forecasting.
Proposed Agrovoc body dimensions;
Publication Type Journal
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