Sentence examples for forage alternatives from inspiring English sources

The goals of this study were to test the effects of early experience at grazing medusahead – an invasive unpalatable weed – and the availability of forage alternatives on intake of medusahead later in life by sheep.

The results suggest that smallholders possess cheap forage supplement alternatives on their farms and even on their pasture plots, which simply have to be tolerated by just pruning them into accessible heights for animals.

Predators that cause their prey to switch to forage in alternative microhabitats are likely to affect the degree to which the prey compete with other species.

In a significantly larger aviary where individuals would need to invest more time and effort to reach the alternative foraging habitat, foraging techniques may play a role in predicting social interactions, which could then result in more positive assortative pair formation and nest location than expected by chance.

This suggests that later snowmelt and alternative forage may reduce browsing pressure on aspen.

Seasonal abundance of alternative forage may also contribute to bark-stripping incidence.

The importance of wild plants as alternative forage source for pollinators was assessed by a survey of the flowering plants in different habitats surrounding eggplant fields.

In addition, SS was an adequate alternative forage in precision-fed dairy heifers with outcomes very similar to CS-based rations.

Sorghum forage is an alternative crop that is more adapted to drier conditions and more resistant than corn to drought conditions.

Milk fat from cows fed the alternative forage diets contained higher concentrations of 4 0, 6 0, and 18 0 and tended to have lower concentrations of total trans fatty acids.

This may point either to increased abundance of bumblebees in more urban sites or to a concentration effect of bumblebees in our urban study sites due to a lack of alternative forage resources.