Short-term ingestive behaviour of sheep and goats grazing grasses and legumes: 2. Quantitative relationships between sets of sward and ingestive behaviour variables

New Zealand Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 75-82

  Gong, Y ^a   Hodgson, J ^b   Lambert, M G ^a   Gordon, I L ^b  

^a AGRESEARCH GRASSLANDS   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bite area; Bite depth; Bite rate; Bite weight; Bulk density; Canonical correlation; Goats; Grasses; Ingestive behaviour; Legumes; Sheep; Sward height

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAPRA HIRCUS; OVIS ARIES; POACEAE;

EID: 0343618947     PISSN: 00288233     EISSN: 11758775     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00288233.1996.9513164     Document Type: Article

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