| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 335 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / W.M. Rauw -- Resource Allocation Patterns / D.S. Glazier -- Trade-offs / D.S. Glazier -- Metabolic Constraints to Resource Allocation / D.E. Naya and L.D. Bacigalupe -- Homeorhesis During Heat Stress / R.J. Collier, S.W. Limesand, M.L. Rhoads, R.P. Rhoads and L.H. Baumgard -- Residual Feed Intake / R.M. Herd -- Allocation of Resources to Maintenance / P.W. Knap -- Allocation of Resources to Growth / C.T. Whittemore -- Genetic Size-scaling / St C.S. Taylor -- Allocation of Resources to Reproduction / G.B. Martin, D. Blache and I.H. Williams -- Allocation of Resources to Immune Responses / I.G. Colditz -- Selection for High Production in Pigs / P.W. Knap and W.M. Rauw -- Selection for High Production in Poultry / P.B. Siegel, C.F. Honaker and W.M. Rauw -- Selection for High Production in Dairy Cattle / R.F. Veerkamp, J.J. Windig, M.P.L. Calus, W. Ouweltjes, Y. de Haas and B. Beerda -- Consequences of Biological Engineering for Resource Allocation and Welfare / D.M. Broom -- Breeding Goals to Optimize Production Efficiency / A.F. Groen -- Robustness / P.W. Knap -- Modelling of Resource Allocation Patterns / N.C. Friggens and E.H. van der Waaij |
| Summary |
This book is about resource allocation matters with the aim to further development thoughts and models on resource allocation applied to livestock production. It contains 18 chapters divided into 4 parts which discuss resources and resource allocation patterns, trade-offs, metabolic constraints to resource allocation and the process of homeorhesis with a special emphasis to homeorhesis during heat stress; the relationship between food intake and resources allocated to body maintenance, growth, reproduction and the immune response; the consequences of high production efficiency in pigs, poultry and dairy cattle and the consequences of improved production by means of biological engineering and options to include resource allocation matters in the breeding objective, animal welfare and in resource allocation modelling |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Livestock productivity -- Mathematical models
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Resource allocation.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
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Cattle.
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Pigs.
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Animal behaviour.
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Animal breeding.
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Animal feeding.
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Animal health.
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Animal production.
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Animal welfare.
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Behaviour.
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Domestic animals.
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Energy cost of maintenance.
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Energy cost of production.
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Feed intake.
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Feeds.
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Genetic engineering.
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Growth rate.
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Heat stress.
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Immune response.
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Immunity.
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Livestock.
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Metabolism.
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Models.
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Nutrition physiology.
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Poultry.
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Reproduction.
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Resource allocation.
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Resources.
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Selection.
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Stress.
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Stress response.
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Livestock productivity -- Mathematical models
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Resource allocation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rauw, Wendy M.
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| ISBN |
1845934369 |
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9781845934361 |
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