Abstract: (objective) the purpose of this paper is to analyze the body weight and body size of local yellow cattle in Yuanjiang under different feeding methods, study their growth and development laws, and build a regression equation for predicting body weight by body size. (Methods) in this study, 20 local yellow cattle raised in the large-scale cattle farm and 10 male and 10 female cattle raised by farmers around the cattle farm were randomly selected. The body weight and body size were measured from birth to 12 months old, and the appropriate growth and development model, body weight and body size index and regression model of months old were fitted, (results) the results show that: (1) the fitting degree R2 of Gompertz, logistic, von Bertalanffy and Brody models to beef cattle body weight is high, and the logistic model is the best. The growth turning point months of local grazing cattle and house fed cattle were 4.75 and 5.23 respectively, and the turning point weights were 70.23 and 101.28 respectively; (2) There was a significant correlation between the body weight, body size and the age of the cattle (P < 0.01). (3) There was a significant correlation between the body weight, body size and the month age of the two groups of Yuanjiang local yellow cattle grazing and house feeding (P < 0.01). In the multiple linear regression equation, the regression coefficient of the month age was greater than that of the other traits. (conclusion) the logistic model is the best for fitting the body weight growth curve of Yuanjiang local yellow cattle; There was a significant correlation between body weight, body size and month age in the two groups. The regression coefficient of month age in the five linear regression equation was greater than that of body size, and the regression coefficient of tube circumference in body size was also very high. |