A partial adjustment model to describe the lactation curve of a dairy cow
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Animal Science
- Vol. 34 (3), 243-247
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003356100010175
Abstract
A new model is proposed to describe the lactation curve of a dairy cow. It uses the fact that milk yield at a given stage of lactation is largely determined by the yield in the preceding stage. The model is written as: yt = λ(m0 – m1t) + (1 – λ)yt–1. t ≥ 1, 0 ≤ λ ≤ 1, where y1, and yt–1 are the current and preceding milk yields in kg/week, and the constant × estimates the fraction (1–λ) by which milk yield adjusts to the level at the next stage. The fraction (1–λ) by which the milk yield persists at the preceding level is used to define a measure of persistency, P = (1–λ)m0/m1 weeks, where m1 is the rate of decline in kg/week and m0 is a constant.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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