Farm Animal Metabolism and Nutrition

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Fig. 17.4.

Although rare, feed tossing behaviour can still occur with cows in headlocks and with their heads in the head down, grazing pos

ition. Feed tossing

behaviour normally occurs in elevated feed bunks. Note the sequence of a cow taking a mouthful of feed (A) and tossing it over

her head (B). Photographs from

Albright (1997).

(A)

(B)