TY  - JOUR
T1  - Comparison of Non-linear Growth Models to Describe the Growth in Japanese Quail
AU - Aksoy, Tulin AU - Firat, Mehmet Ziya AU - Narinc, Dogan AU - Karaman, Emre 
JO  - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
VL  - 9
IS  - 14
SP  - 1961
EP  - 1966
PY  - 2010
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1680-5593
DO  - javaa.2010.1961.1966
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2010.1961.1966
KW  - Growth curve
KW  -goodness of fit
KW  -Japanese quail
KW  -Non-linear regression models
KW  -breeding
KW  -Turkey
AB  - Growth is one of the well-known features in biological creatures. 
  The evolution of body weight during growth is of particular importance in both 
  breeding and management. In the present study, the adequacy of 11 mathematica 
  l functions, (Gompertz, Richards, Logistic, Bertalanffy, Brody, Negative Exponential, 
  Morgan-Mercer Flodin and three Hyperbolastic models) used to model growth characteristics 
  of Japanese quails were compared. For this purpose, the live-weight data obtained 
  weekly from 499 quails were fitted to aforementioned non-linear models. The 
  results of the analysis indicated that the Gompertz model is the most appropriate 
  one in terms of goodness of fit criteria (R<SUP>2</SUP> = 0.99998, R<SUP-2</SUP>= 0.99997, MSE = 0.318, RM = 0.03019, RSD = 0.60868, AIC = -2.010, BIC = -2.172) 
  followed by the Richards and H3 models. Weight and age at the inflection point 
  for Gompertz equation were calculated as 81.70 g and 14.95th day, respectively.
ER  -