Intake rate, intake per bite and time per bite of lactating ewes on vegetative and reproductive swards

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 53-64

  Prache, S ^a  

^a UMR1213 HERBIVORES   (France)

Author keywords

Bite; Foraging behaviour; Grazing; Intake; Intake rate; Sheep

Indexed keywords

BITE; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOUR; SHEEP;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0030617128     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(96)01139-2     Document Type: Article

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