The role of grass stems as structural foraging deterrents and their effects on the foraging behaviour of cattle

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 101, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 10-26

  Drescher, Michael ^a,b   Heitkönig, Ignas M A ^a   Raats, Jan G ^c   Prins, Herbert H T ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FORT HARE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bite rate; Bite size; Cattle; Forage intake rate; Grazer; Sward structure

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CATTLE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRASS; LEAF AREA; STEM; SWARD;

BOS TAURUS; PANICUM MAXIMUM;

EID: 33750608194     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

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