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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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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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Research Note:Precision and accuracy of sward height distributions
, 2007 Double normal distributions can be used to resolve many sward height frequency distributions into two components representing the 'short' (patches) and 'tall' (non-patches)areas in the sward. The effect of sample size on the precision and accuracy of parameters of sward height distributions was examined by drawing sub-samples (n = 10) of increasing ...
Morris, CD, Zacharias, PJK
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Variation of pecking rate with sward height in wild wigeon Anas penelope
Journal of Ornithology, 2006 We examined how pecking rate changed with sward height in wintering European wigeon Anas penelope in a nature reserve of the French Atlantic coast. Pecking rates were recorded as the time taken to perform 10 or 50 pecks. We found a negative correlation between pecking rate and sward height over a range of heights from 1.0 to 3.5 cm, but no sex effect ...
Durant, D., Fritz, H.
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The Effect of Sward Surface Height on Sheep Grazing Activities [PDF]
, 2021 The objective of this study was to assess the effect of Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.) sward height on grazing activities. The experiment was carried out at the Research Station of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
de F. Carvalho, Paulo C. +5 more
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Effect of sward height and sheep breed on sward composition during summer grazing period [PDF]
Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science, 1995 The sward height could determine the intake of the herbivores and, at the same time, to affect to sward composition (Morris et al., 1994). If the foraging strategies is different among species could be also different among breeds of sheep (Milne, 1991).
Mantecón, Ángel R. +3 more
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Effect of Sward Height on Rumen Degradation in Merino Grazing Sheep [PDF]
Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Production (1972), 1993 It is now well established that the height of the sward grazed by sheep has a large effect on their performance (Hodgson, Mackie and Parker, 1986). However, there is a scarce of information about the rumen fermentation in sheep grazing at different sward heights.
Mantecón, Ángel R. +5 more
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Values and trendlines of sward height (cm) and grazing activity (min.hr−1).
, 2022 Values and trendlines of sward height (cm) and grazing activity (min.hr−1).
Elvira Sales-Baptista (752812) +5 more
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Sward Height; Visual Estimate Compared with Plate Meter Height [PDF]
, 2022 Sward height (SH) is widely used in pasture research and farm practice to evaluate pasture conditions. Visual estimates can take less time than actual measurements.
Gekara, O. J. +4 more
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Influence of sward height on diet selection by horses
Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 2005 Abstract Foraging herbivores are often faced with spatial and temporal heterogeneity within the vegetation they have available to graze and therefore have to make decisions where and when to graze. The study reported in this paper investigated the influence of sward height on diet selection by horses grazing perennial rye-grass swards.
Naujeck, A., Hill, J., Gibb, M. J.
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