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Automated Measurement of Heart Girth for Pigs Using Two Kinect Depth Sensors [PDF]
Sensors, 2020 The heart girth parameter is an important indicator reflecting the growth and development of pigs that provides critical guidance for the optimization of healthy pig breeding.
Xinyue Zhang +3 more
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Feasibility of heart girth models in estimating live weight of fat‐long‐tailed sheep [PDF]
Veterinary Medicine and Science, 2021 Fat deposition in the brisket of Ethiopian fat‐long‐tailed sheep may interfere with the correlation between heart girth (HG) and live weight (LW), bringing into question the accuracy of HG models for LW prediction that are currently in use.
Jane Wamatu, Ashraf Alkhtib
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Heart girth best predicts live weights of market-age pigs in Tanzania [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The aim of this study was to use linear body measurements to develop and validate a regression-based model for prediction of live weights (LW) of pigs reared under smallholder settings in rural areas in the southern highlands of Tanzania. LW of 400 pigs (
Mwemezi L. Kabululu
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Accuracy of heart girth tapes in the estimation of weights of pre-weaned calves. [PDF]
Vet Rec Open, 2021 Background Heart girth tapes (HGTs) are often used as an alternative to weight scales for calves. This study investigated the accuracy of HGT in estimating bodyweight and daily liveweight gain (DWLG) of pre‐weaned calves, and the impact of inter‐observer
Sherwin V +5 more
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Heart Girth as a Predictor of Body Weight in Lactating Cows. [PDF]
Animals (Basel)Simple Summary Body weight is an important characteristic of dairy cows, with practical relevance for research and on-farm management. However, large-scale direct measurements are often difficult to collect under commercial farming conditions ...
Magro S +4 more
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Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Pecuarias, 2022 Background: Assessment of animal growth based on live weight (LW) in traditional sheep production systems is limited by the high cost of purchase and maintenance of livestock scales.
Jorge-Rodolfo Canul-Solís +9 more
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Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2010 The aim of the research was to study the relation between blood haemoglobin (Hb) and serum iron (Fe) concentrations and changing of heart girth with age in calves. Blood samples of 66 dairy calves were taken at the age of 3, 5 and 16 weeks (wks).
Martina Klinkon +4 more
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Asian Pacific Journal of Reproduction, 2019 Objective: To determine effects of variations of heart girth, volume trait on embryo quality grade, and to explore the relationship between heart girth and circulating progesterone and correlations of circulating progesterone with embryo quality grade in
Abdel-Tawab A. Y. Khalil +2 more
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Body Weight Prediction in Karayaka Lambs Using Morphometric Measurements: A Comparison of Regression and Machine Learning Approaches [PDF]
AnimalsBody weight is one of the important phenotypic traits in sheep breeding for evaluating growth performance, planning flock management practices, and determining economic efficiency.
Lütfi Bayyurt
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Short Communication: Verifying Holstein Heifer Heart Girth to Body Weight Prediction Equations
Journal of Dairy Science, 2017 Coleen Jones +2 more
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