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	Ajustement de courbes de croissance chez le bétail	Note d'état corporel pour les bovins
Domaine	Zootechnie	Zootechnie
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1970s	1980s
Auteur d'origine	Animal Biologists and Agricultural Statisticians	Dairy Nutritionists
Type	statistical modeling	visual assessment and scoring
Source fondatrice	Menchaca, M. A., & Chase, C. C. (2002). Body measurements and condition scores for beef cattle. Veterinary Clinics of North America: Food Animal Practice, 19(3), 387-405.	Ferguson, J. D., Galligan, D. T., & Thomsen, N. (1994). Principal descriptors of body condition score in Holstein dairy cattle. Journal of Dairy Science, 77(9), 2695-2703.
Alias	growth model fitting, trajectory analysis, growth kinetics modeling	BCS assessment, condition scoring, cattle body evaluation
Apparentées	3	3
Résumé	Growth curve fitting is the mathematical modeling of animal body weight and size changes over time. Developed by animal biologists and statisticians in the 1970s-1980s (Fitzhugh), the method applies nonlinear regression to weight data, extracting parameters that characterize growth rate, time to maturity, and asymptotic mature weight. Curve fitting supports comparisons of genetics, nutrition, and management effects on growth efficiency and enables prediction of market weight and slaughter timing.	Body condition scoring (BCS) is a systematic visual assessment of cattle body fat reserves and nutritional status. Formalized by dairy nutritionists in the 1980s-1990s (Edmonson and Ferguson), BCS integrates palpation of bony landmarks and observation of body shape to quantify energy stores on a standardized scale. The method is essential for nutritional management, health monitoring, and reproductive performance in dairy and beef cattle.