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

Plant Response to Grazing

• Carbohydrate Reserves: What You Learned May Be Wrong

• Ingestion of Toxic Plants by Herbivores UPDATED 2013