Generally comprising at least 80% of the hartebeest's diet, grasses make up over 95% of their food in the wet season, October to May.
Dietary and habitat generalisms were obtained as the number of the major food/habitat types recorded in the literature for each species (diet: grasses and herbs, seeds and grains, fruits and berries, pollen and nectar, vegetative material, invertebrates, vertebrates, and carrion; habitat: forest, mixed scrub, grassland, marsh and wetland, and cultivated and farm lands, [17], [48]).
The four diets contained maize silage as the main forage (SV1.2 diet), grass hay as the main forage (SV2.0 diet), maize silage and grass hay in a 4 1 ratio (SV1.6 M diet) or maize silage and grass hay in a 1 1 ratio (SV1.6H diet).
Cows were fed a high-forage diet (grass silage and hay accounted for 75% of the dry matter intake), supplemented with either a cereal grain-based concentrate mixture (CON), or a mixture of wheat bran and dried sugar beet pulp (WBBP).
They were fed the same standard diet (grass silage, hay, corn straw and mineral).
Three diets (grass silage:straw, 75:25 on a dry matter basis (SS), grass silage (S), and grass silage + 3 kg concentrate daily (C)) precalving, and two diets (4 kg [LC] or 8 kg [HC] concentrate daily + grass silage ad libitum) postcalving were combined in a 3 × 2 factorial design.
Three diets (grass silage:straw 75:25 on a dry matter basis (SS), grass silage (S) and grass silage+3 kg/day of concentrates (C)) pre-calving and two diets (4 kg (LC) or 8 kg/day of concentrates (HC +grass silage ad libitum) post-calving were combined in a 3×2 factorial design.
Horses are herbivores with a digestive system adapted to a forage diet of grasses and other plant material, consumed steadily throughout the day.
Goats constantly seek a varied diet of grasses, shrubs and forbs, while sheep prefer shorter grasses better suited to their labial morphologic structure - although at the same time increasing the danger of parasite infestation.
European rabbits are ravenous eaters and indulge in a diverse diet of grasses, roots, tree bark, leaves, grains, fruit, seeds, and buds.
Their diet included grasses, sedges, and possibly animals that ate such plants.
