Short-term Ingestive Behavior of Cattle Grazing Tropical Grasses
Short-term ingestive behavior of cattle was measured for two tropical grasses with contrasting growth forms, centipedegrass (CG; strongly prostrated) and bahiagrass (BG; more erect). Bite dimensions, bite weight and intake rate of animals increased as herbage mass increased in both grasses, showing a steeper initial increase and an earlier and lower plateau in CG than in BG. The results show that strongly prostrated grasses should be grazed when herbage mass is close to the point where the intake response plateaus, in order to maximize both quantity and quality of intake.
Bite dimensions Bite weight Instantaneous intake rate
Masahiko Hirata Manabu Tobisa Eri Kunieda
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Miyazaki, 1-1 Gakuen-kibanadai-nishi, Miyazaki 889-2192, Japan
国际会议
首尔
英文
208-209
2009-08-10（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）