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Diet selection and performance of horses grazing on different heathland types

Animal, 2017
The number of horses in northern Spanish mountains has increased in recent decades, but little is known about their grazing behaviour, performance and potential for foal meat production.
C. López López, L.M.M. Ferreira, U. García, J. Moreno-Gonzalo, M.A.M. Rodrigues, K. Osoro, I. Ferre, R. Celaya   +7 more
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Effect of livestock breed and grazing intensity on biodiversity and production in grazing systems: 2. Diet selection [PDF]

, 2007
International audienceReduction in grazing intensity and the use of traditional instead of commercial breeds have frequently been recommended to meet biodiversity and production goals in sustainable grazing systems.
Dumont, B., Rook, A. J., Coran, Ch., Coran, C., Rook, A.J., Dumont, Bertrand, Röver, U., Röver, K.-U., Rover, K. U.   +8 more
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Do economic constraints encourage the selection of energy dense diets? [PDF]

, 2003
Economic constraints, by inducing the selection of low cost energy dense diets, could indirectly be responsible for the high prevalence of obesity in low socio-economic status groups.
Briend, André, Darmon, Nicole, Ferguson, Elaine   +2 more
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Development of conditioned taste aversion to Mascagnia rigida in goats Desenvolvimento de condicionamento aversivo ao sabor de Mascagnia rigida em caprinos

Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, 2008
The aim of this study was to determine whether goats could be averted from consuming Mascagnia rigida, a toxic plant found in the semiarid region of northeastern Brazil. Fourteen male goats not previously familiarized to M. rigida were randomly allocated
Raquel Ribeiro Barbosa, Idalécio Pacífico da Silva, Benito Soto-Blanco   +2 more
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Diet selection of sheep shifted from quality to quantity characteristics of forages as sward availability decreased

Animal, 2022
Understanding the dynamic inter-relationship between grazing animals and the pasture sward is critical for sustainable grazing management. A field study was conducted to investigate the relationships between the quantity and quality characteristics of ...
H. Zhang, N. Liu, G.W. Yang, W.B. Badgery, Y.P. Guo, Y.J. Zhang   +5 more
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Resource partitioning among African savanna herbivores in North Cameroon: the importance of diet composition, food quality and body mass [PDF]

, 2011
The relationship between herbivore diet quality, and diet composition (the range of food plants consumed) and body mass on resource partitioning of herbivores remains the subject of an ongoing scientific debate.
de Iongh, H.H., Jong, C.B., de, Goethem, J., de Jong, C.B., Brunsting, A.M.H., Loth, P.E., Iongh, H.H., de, Klop, E., Prins, H.H.T.   +8 more
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Does feeding area restriction inhibit social learning of toxic weed ingestion in cattle?

Animal, 2010
Social learning from peers can trigger herd-wide intoxication with white locoweed (Oxytropis sericea), an alkaloid-synthesizing herbaceous legume that grows on rangelands of western North America.
K.T. Jackson, A.F. Cibils, W.R. Gould, J.D. Graham, C.D. Allison   +4 more
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Application of a high‐resolution animal‐borne remote video camera with global positioning for wildlife study: Observations on the secret lives of woodland caribou

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2012
For many species of animals, obtaining basic life‐history data is difficult and even some common aspects, such as diet choice, remain unknown. To overcome this problem, we deployed what is, to our knowledge, the first successful application of a ...
Ian D. Thompson, Mehdi Bakhtiari, Arthur R. Rodgers, James A. Baker, John M. Fryxell, Edward Iwachewski   +5 more
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Feeding Response to Tea Saponin in Chicks Given Diet Selection

The Journal of Poultry Science, 2001
In order to evaluate the involvement of taste in the decreased feed intake due to tea saponin, the preference for a diet containing saponin or cholesterol was studied in chicks given diet selection.
Hiroshi Ueda, Gen Shigemizu
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Effects of physical form and stage of maturity at harvest of whole-crop barley silage on intake, chewing activity, diet selection and faecal particle size of dairy steers

Animal, 2010
This study examined the effects of physical form and stage of maturity at harvest of whole-crop barley silage (WCBS) on feed intake, eating and rumination activity, diet selection and faecal particle size in dairy steers.
B.-O. Rustas, P. Nørgaard, A.R. Jalali, E. Nadeau   +3 more
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