Farm Animal Metabolism and Nutrition

Chapter 17 Feeding Behaviour R.J. Grant^1 and J.L. Albright^2 (^1) Department of Animal Science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln ...

Researchers at Michigan State University (Dado and Allen, 1994) observed that higher producing, older cows consumed more feed, a ...

cows in stanchions spent 3 h eating and 8 h ruminating each day. The most intensive research on feeding behaviour in dairy cattl ...

lasted for 30–45 min after delivery of fresh feed. This experimental observation suggests that, relative to group size, bunk spa ...

aggression during feeding. However, feed intake was unchanged. In contrast, when cows were fed limited amounts of feed, dominant ...

Observations of other management activities are noted also in Fig. 17.1. These activities include milking, feeding, feed push-up ...

nutrients provided, within reason (Albright, 1993; Grant and Albright, 1995). Cow space, cow density and distribution of feed an ...

Grouping Strategy, Competition and Feeding Behaviour Behaviour of cows in a group represents the interaction of several driving ...

Grouping of primiparous cows When practical, heifers within several weeks of parturition should be grouped separately and adapte ...

field observations of ten dairy herds in Nebraska during the summer of 1997 (Grant and Albright, 1997), in most cases, farms wit ...

appears that the optimally constructed feed bunk or manger is at a height that allows cows to consume feed in a natural grazing ...

376 R.J. Grant and J.L. Albright Fig. 17.4. Although rare, feed tossing behaviour can still occur with cows in headlocks and wit ...

feed in the manger was outside of the cow’s reach. Almost no pressures >500 N were recorded during the first minutes of a mea ...

feed after about 14 min, and left the feed manger. This observation reinforces the importance of the observations of Menzi and C ...

and a maize and soybean meal concentrate; and (ii) a sweetened TMR in which a brown sugar food product constituted 1.5% of the d ...

group and animals with a prior history of ill- ness following ingestion of novel feeds. The effect of flavour enhancers on feed- ...

animal’s ability to maximize feed intake. Feed should be available when cows desire to eat, e.g. at sunrise or after milking. Ad ...

Grant, R.J. and Albright, J.L. (1997) Dry matter intake as affected by cow groupings and behavior. In: Proceedings of the 58th M ...

Chapter 18 Anti-nutritional Factors and Mycotoxins J.P.F. D’Mello Biotechnology Department, The Scottish Agricultural College, E ...

number of the above compounds together with others such as saponins, vasoactive lipids, gossypol and cyanogens are associated wi ...