Fact Sheets
Behavioral Principles and Practices
- Behavior Depends on Consequences
- Mother Knows Best UPDATED 2013
- Palatability -- More Than a Matter of Taste
- Learning about Foods and Locations
- Learning What to Eat and What to Avoid
- Experience Determines Structure of the Body
- Mineral Nutrition: Are animals nutritionally wise?
Application of Behavioral Principles
Diet Training
- Training Livestock to Avoid Specific Forage NEW 2013
- Diet Mixing: Increasing Intake of Unpalatable Plants
- Exposing Lambs to Grain with their Mothers Increases Intake and Improves Feedlot Performance
Pastures Rangelands
- Structure, Quality and Skills Interact to Influence Forage Intake
- Benefits of Exposing Animals to Poor-Quality Foods Early in Life NEW 2014
- Preparing Animals for Moving Day
- Training Livestock to Leave Streams and Use Uplands
- Using Low Moisture Blocks to Improve Livestock Distribution Forage Utilization
Poisonous Plants
- Why Animals Die From Eating Poisonous Plants
- Reducing Losses Due to Tall Larkspur Poisoning FINAL DRAFT