A preliminary study of the application of artificial neural networks to prediction of milk yield in dairy sheep

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 35-48

  Kominakis, A P ^a   Abas, Z ^b   Maltaris, I ^c   Rogdakis, E ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b 'Macedonia' Cooperative Breeders' Association of Chios Dairy Sheep   (Greece)

^c Center of Animal Genetic Improvement   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Dairy sheep; Lactation milk yield; Prediction; Test day records

Indexed keywords

DAIRY PRODUCTS; DATA ACQUISITION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

PRODUCTION YIELD ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; MILK; PREDICTION; SHEEP; YIELD;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0036315186     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1699(02)00051-0     Document Type: Article

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