The effect of farms on growth pattern of cross bred cattle

Abstract

Researchers in the field of behavioural and life sciences often come across with the studies on growth. Growth studies are very important for the livestock production because growth is the foundation on which the other forms of production such as milk, meat, wool etc rests. Growth models are used to predict growth rates and change in the shape of the organism. Comparison of nonlinear models for weight age data in cattle has been done under homoscedasticity Brown et al. (1972), Brown et al. (1976), Alessandra et al. (2002), Kolluru et al. (2003). Lambe et al. (2006), also studied different growth models in lambs. Various nonlinear models are available for comparing the growth pattern of cattle, but comparison of growth pattern is needed to find most appropriate model