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A note on the effect of dietary variety on food intake of cattle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

A. Ramos  and
T. Tennessen
A. Ramos
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC 88 040 900, Brasil
T. Tennessen
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia B2N 5E3, Canada
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Abstract

The possibility of using dietary variety to enhance food intake of ruminants was investigated with 36 Hereford steers. For 21 days, 18 animals were given a monotonous diet of either hay or silage, while 18 others were given a varied diet of hay and silage offered in succession, at either 12- or 24-h intervals. Dietary variety did not affect total food intake (P > 0·05). However, when offered both foods at the end of the trial, animals which had been restricted to hay showed a proportional increase of 0·15 in their acceptance of silage (P < 0·05), whereas animals restricted to silage showed an increase of 0·49 in their acceptance of hay (P < 0·05)

Keywords

diversityfeeding behaviourfood intakesteers
Type
Research Article
Information
Animal Production , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , October 1993 , pp. 323 - 325
Copyright
Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1993

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