Quarterly Egg Production Estimators

Egg production functions

Resting egg production in Daphnia:

Cyclic parthenogenesis (heterogony) is a widespread reproductive mode found in diverse taxa such as digenean trematodies, gall wasps, gall midges, aphids, cladocerans and rotifers. It is of particular interest as it combines the advantages of asexual reproduction (rapid population growth) and sexual reproduction (recombination). Usually sexual reproduction is initiated when or slightly before e...

Imidacloprid Boosts TSSM Egg Production

Prediction of Egg Production Using Artificial Neural Network

Artificial neural networks (ANN) have shown to be a powerful tool for system modeling in a wide range of applications. The focus of this study is on neural network applications to data analysis in egg production. An ANN model with two hidden layers, trained with a back propagation algorithm, successfully learned the relationship between the input (age of hen) and output (egg production) variabl...

First and Second Cycle Egg Production Relationships

A study of 1231 first cycle and 887 second cycle table egg flocks (by Bell and Adams) in the early 1980’s in California revealed a series of very important relationships. These relationships are essential to the decision of whether or not flocks should be molted and if so, when? If molting is to pay, the second cycle of production must yield high performance compared to a one cycle option. The ...