Fact Sheets

Behavioral Principles and Practices

• Behavior Depends on Consequences

• Learning about Foods and Locations UPDATED 2012
  

• Learning What to Eat and What to Avoid

• Experience Determines Structure of the Body UPDATED 2012
  

• Mineral Nutrition: Are animals nutritionally wise?  UPDATED 2012
  

Social

• Mother Knows Best UPDATED 2013
  

Feedback

• Palatability -- More Than a Matter of Taste  UPDATED 2011

Variety

• Does Variety Matter?

• Ignoring Variation: Are We Missing Opportunities?

 

Application of Behavioral Principles

Diet Training

• Training Animals to Avoid Foods  COMING SOON TRAINING ANIMALS TO AVOID FOODS BULLETIN

• Introducing Animals to New Foods

• Diet Mixing: Increasing Intake of Unpalatable Plants UPDATED 2012

• Exposing Lambs to Grain with their Mothers Increases Intake and Improves Feedlot Performance NEW 2012

Pastures & Rangelands

• Livestock as a Tool for Biodiversity in the Sagebrush Steppe

• Structure, Quality and Skills Interact to Influence Forage Intake  UPDATED 2012
  

Poisonous Plants

• Why Animals Die From Eating Poisonous Plants  UPDATED 2012

• Reducing Losses Due to Tall Larkspur Poisoning COMING SOON LARKSPUR BULLETIN
  

Habitat

• Preparing Animals for Moving Day  UPDATED 2012

• Training Livestock to Leave Streams and Use Uplands  UPDATED 2012

• Using Low Moisture Blocks to Improve Livestock Distribution & Forage Utilization  UPDATED 2012

 

Plant Response to Grazing

• Carbohydrate Reserves: What You Learned May Be Wrong  UPDATED 2012

• Factors Influencing Grazing Tolerance

• Grazing Response Index: A Simple, Effective Method to Evaluate Plant Responses to Grazing

• Ingestion of Toxic Plants by Herbivores   UPDATED 2013