Abstract

Diet composition is partly determined by selective grazing. In general, cattle show a preference for a mixed diet (Cosgrove et al., 1996), with partial preference for legumes over grasses (Parsons et al., 1994). This work was conducted to determine if cattle modify their dietary pref-erence as the availability of a preferred species decreases.

A, Torres-Rodriguez, GP Cosgrove, J Hodgson, and CB Anderson

Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production, Volume 57, , 197-198, 1997