ORIGINAL PAPER
Artificial Neural Network for prediction of plasma
hormones, liver enzymes and performance in
broilers
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Animal Science Department, Agricultural College, Shahrekord University,
Shahrekord, Iran
2
Electrical Department, Engineering College, Shahrekord University,
Shahrekord, Iran
Publication date: 2007-05-02
Corresponding author
A. Moharrery
Animal Science Department, Agricultural College, Shahrekord University,
Shahrekord, Iran
J. Anim. Feed Sci. 2007;16(2):293-304
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ABSTRACT
A three-layer feed forward Artificial Neural Network was trained to predict plasma hormones
and liver enzymes in broiler chickens. Six diet parameters are selected as inputs (predictor) and
eleven performances, plasma hormones or liver enzymes are chosen as output (predicted) parameters
of the model. Birds were fed diets containing different concentration of energy and protein. A data
set with 100 individuals is divided in two subsets (each contains 50 individuals) for training and
evaluation of the neural network. A comparison is made between laboratory analysis results and
the neural network predicted values for plasma hormones and liver enzymes. The neural network
accurately forecasted the considered values in the first (training) subset and invalid answers were
not identified in the second verification subset. The proposed model were found to most effective
identify performance, plasma hormones or liver enzymes for broiler chickens fed the diets on the
known range of the energy and protein concentration. Sensitivity analysis shows the dependency
evaluation of the output parameters with respect to the inputs.
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