Growth curve mixed nonlinear models in quails

Raimundo Nonato Colares Camargo Júnior, Cláudio Vieira de Araújo, Flávio Luiz de Menezes, Simone Inoe de Araújo, Naiana Leticia Pavan, Mérik Rocha-Silva, Welligton Conceição da Silva, José Ribamar Felipe Marques, André Guimarães Maciel e Silva, Hipócrates de Menezes Chalkidis and José de Brito Lourenço Júnior

PLOS ONE, 2023, vol. 18, issue 6, 1-11

Abstract: Our aim was to evaluate the use and application of different nonlinear mixed models, as well as to compare them with approach in nonlinear fixed models, for describing the growth curve of meat-type quails according to gender. A total of 15,002 and 15,408 records of males and females were used, respectively. The body weights were regressed on age of the animals using nonlinear models (Brody; Gompertz; Logistic, Morgan-Mercer-Flodin, Richards and Von Bertalanffy). All model parameters were considered fixed, whereas parameters related to asymptotic weight and maturity rate were fitted as random effects. The Bayesian Information Criterion was used to find the model of best fit. For both genders, the model that used the Morgan-Mercer-Flodin function with the inclusion of asymptotic weight as a random effect was considered the best-fitting model because it reduced the residual variance and increased the accuracy. Based on the lower absolute growth rate and growth velocity of male quails compared to that of females, it can be inferred that males should be slaughtered later. Given the results of this study, it can contribute to the current knowledge about animal yield, specifically at the best moment to slaughter and, this sense, improv the quality genetic of the populations in time.

Date: 2023
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