Recording the prehensive bite diversity in cows for a dynamic analysis of foraging behavior on diversified vegetation

摘要：

Direct observation techniques have been widely used these last 30 years for recording intake of domestic and wild but tamed ruminants ( Neff 1974, Holechek et al.1982, Meuret et al.1985, Dumont et al.1995 ).Recent improvements allowed for a continuous recording and hence an accurate estimation of intake ( Parker et al.1993, Agreil and Meuret 2004), but mainly for small‐sized ruminants ( i.e.deer, sheep and goats).The aim of this paper is to present a coding grid designed for the recording of bites of cows foraging on diversified vegetation.

关键词： on‐farm recordings ruminants intake kinetics feeding behavior bite‐count technique

作者: AGREIL Cyril MEURET Michel

作者单位: INRA UR767,SA D Department,Agroparc 84 ９14 Avignon cedex ９,France

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2008世界草地与草原大会

会议地点: 呼和浩特

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）