The effect of the density and physical properties of grass stems on the foraging behaviour and instantaneous intake rate by cattle grazing an artificial reproductive tropical sward

By M. Benvenutti, I. Gordon, D. Poppi. 2006

100 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Grazing behaviour, herbage intake and animal performance of beef cattle heifers on marandu palisade grass subjected to intensities of continuous stocking management (2012, background): “However, the differences were not large relative to the recorded differences in daily weight gain, indicating that nutritive value was relatively less important than HI in determining animal performance (Stobbs 1973; Hodgson 1990; Carvalho et al. 2001; Benvenutti et al. 2006; Euclides et al. 2009).”
Behavioural mechanisms of intake rate by heifers grazing swards of contrasting structures (2014, background): “Small bite mass requires fewer chewing jaw movements per bite, so a greater number of jaw movements can be used to harvest bites (Spalinger and Hobbs, 1992; Fonseca et al., 2013; Mezzalira et al., 2013). When bite mass is large, mastication needs are large and bite rate is low, because the maximum r”