Egg production curve analyses in poultry science

World's Poultry Science Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 817-828

  Narinc, D ^a   Uckardes, F ^b   Aslan, E ^b  

^a University of Namik Kemal   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADIYAMAN   (Turkey)

Author keywords

egg production; egg production functions; mechanistic modelling; multiphasic modelling; nonlinear regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910017012     PISSN: 00439339     EISSN: 17434777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0043933914000877     Document Type: Article

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