Determining the pre-grazing sward height of Kikuyu grass (Cenchrus clandestinus - Hochst. ex Chiov.) for optimizing nutrient intake rate of dairy heifers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Understanding the grazing process and animal response to sward structures (e.g., sward height) is key to setting targets for efficient grazing management.
Alejandra Marín Gómez +8 more
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Beef cattle responses to pre-grazing sward height and low level of energy supplementation on tropical pastures. [PDF]
J Anim Sci, 2020 The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of energy supplementation and pre-grazing sward height on grazing behavior, nutrient intake, digestion and metabolism of cattle in tropical pastures managed as rotational grazing system.
Dórea JRR +6 more
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Bioscience Journal, 2020 The structure of the sward is important because it influences the responses of plants and animals in grazing conditions. The objective with this work was to evaluate the structural characteristics of the Marandu palisade grass pasture (Brachiaria ...
Manoel Eduardo Rozalino Santos +7 more
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Effect of Post-Grazing Sward Height, Sire Genotype and Indoor Finishing Diet on Steer Intake, Growth and Production in Grass-Based Suckler Weanling-to-Beef Systems. [PDF]
Animals (Basel), 2021 Simple Summary Grass-fed beef is becoming popular; however, there is little research information on optimising beef cattle performance in such production systems.
Doyle PR +4 more
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Dynamics of soil ingestion by growing bulls during grazing on a high sward height in the French West Indies. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Free-range livestock are exposed to environmental contaminants by ingesting contaminated matrices mainly soil. Several works evaluated precisely the soil ingestion and its variation factors in ruminants.
Collas C +6 more
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Ingestive Behavior of Young Lambs on Contrasting Tropical Grass Sward Heights [PDF]
Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020 The efficiency of grazing ruminant production systems is directly associated to the animals' ingestive behavior, and to structural characteristics of the pastures.
Joseane Anjos da Silva +5 more
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Frontiers in Animal Science, 2021 Sward height is strongly related to the daily dry matter intake of grazing dairy cows, which consequently determines animal performance. Despite that, few studies have explored the potential to increase milk production by managing post-grazing sward ...
Gabriel Menegazzi +6 more
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Effect of sward height during lactation on heifer and calf performance
Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association, 1998 The study compared the performance of Hereford x Friesian heifers and their calves managed on a Low (58±0.5 mm sward height) (L) or High (107±1.4 mm sward height) (H) pasture cover from calf birth up to weaning at about 90 days over spring 1997. Milk production was measured at days 29 and 65 of lactation using the weigh-nurse-weigh technique. At day 29
B.M. Peachey, S.T. Morris
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Influences of Shade Leaves on Ground Cover and Sward Height of Turfgrass [PDF]
HortScience, 1995 Five experiments were performed from Jan. to Nov. 1993 with ornamental and sportive purpose turfgrass species [Axonopus araujoi Valls (nomen nudum); A. compressus var. compressus (Swartz) Beauv.; A. barretoi Valls (nomen nudum); Stenotaphrum secundatum (Walt) O.
Maristela P.S. Kuhn +1 more
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Herbage growth rates on heterogeneous swards as influenced by sward‐height classes
Grass and Forage Science, 2009 AbstractThe contribution of four classes of sward height to daily herbage growth rates of a heterogeneous sward in eight periods throughout a grazing season was investigated in two continuous cattle‐grazing systems differing in intensity (moderate stocking rate: MC; lenient stocking rate: LC).
Şahin Demirbağ, N. +4 more
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