Cross-sectional and longitudinal methods for describing the growth curve of Brahman females
Larissa Raffaela Trindade Borges, Felipe Augusto Fernandes, Alan Freire, Brennda Paula Gonçalves Araujo, Carlos Augusto Freitas Silva, Sarah Laguna Conceição Meirelles · 2026
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Larissa Raffaela Trindade Borges and co-authors published a journal article in 2026 comparing two ways to chart growth in female Brahman cattle. The standard way weighs the same animals from birth to adulthood, which is slow and costly. The other way weighs many animals once, each at a different age.
Body weights covered ages from birth to 65 months, with 34 animals in the repeated group and 219 in the single-measure group. Different math curves fit each set best, with very high fit scores of 0.9953 and 0.9916. The single-measure method still described the growth curve well. The authors offer it as a practical option when regular weighing is not feasible on farms.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Larissa Raffaela Trindade Borges, Felipe Augusto Fernandes, Alan Freire, Brennda Paula Gonçalves Araujo, Carlos Augusto Freitas Silva, Sarah Laguna Conceição Meirelles |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 26866 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |