Creating aversions to locoweed in naive and familiar cattle

Journal of Range Management

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 361-366

  Ralphs, M H ^a   Graham, D ^c   Galyean, M L ^b   James, L F ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b WEST TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cattle grazing; Conditioned taste aversion; Oxytropis sericea; Poisonous plant; White locoweed

Indexed keywords

CATTLE; TASTE AVERSION; WHITE LOCOWEED;

BOS TAURUS; FABACEAE; OXYTROPIS; OXYTROPIS SERICEA;

EID: 0030829524     PISSN: 0022409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4003300     Document Type: Article

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