Cattle grazing behavior with season-long free-choice access to four forage types

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 29-42

  Fehmi, Jeffrey S ^a,b   Karn, James F ^a   Ries, Ronald E ^a   Hendrickson, John R ^a   Hanson, Jon D ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cattle management systems; Cattle spatial distribution; Foraging behaviour; Grazing behaviour

Indexed keywords

FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; LIVESTOCK; PASTURE;

AGROPYRON; AGROPYRON CRISTATUM; AGROPYRON DESERTORUM; ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; BROMUS; BROMUS INERMIS; BROMUS SECALINUS; PASCOPYRUM SMITHII;

EID: 0036689743     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1591(02)00079-5     Document Type: Article

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