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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
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