principles of diet selection
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This annotated slide show overviews the principles of diet selection of livestock and how learning and experience shape livestock food preferences and dietary habits. It gives several examples of how managers can use these behavioral principles to 1) help livestock make efficient use of foods, 2) train livestock to eat weeds, 3) use strategic supplementation to improve livestock distribution and save money by lengthening the grazing season.TRANSCRIPT
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Principles of Diet Selection
Beth BurrittArea Rangeland Resources Extension Agent
Website: extension.usu.edu/behave
Or why animals eat certain foods
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Behavior Depends on
Consequences
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ConsequencesBehavior ConsequencesConsequences
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ConsequencesBehavior
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Most Behaviors are Learned
Sheep Chase Dog
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Her parents refused to buy her a horse
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Mother Knows Best
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avoids mountain mahogany
Mom eats serviceberry and …
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. . .even after weaning
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Neurology Structure Physiology
Experience Changes the Body
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Experience changes the body• Brain structure and function• Liver function• Nitrogen recycling• Rumen size• Rumen papilla size and number
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Foraging Skills
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Palatability is more than a
matter of taste
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Nutrients Increase Palatability
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Toxins Decrease Palatability
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Flavor allows animals to discriminate between foods.
Feedback tells the body whether a particular food flavor is useful or harmful.
Flavors apart from feedback are neither palatable or unpalatable
What is the purpose of flavor?
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They can’t be that smart.
1. Changes in preferences for foods are automatic.
2. They don’t have to think about them.
3. At times, they are not rational.
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Variety is the spice of life
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Monotony – Same Flavor
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Preference for Nutrients
PreferenceEnergy ProteinMeal
High Energy
High Protein
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Toxins Limit Intake
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Most toxins limit intake causing
animals to eat a variety of foods
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PoisonousPlants
Plants with Toxins
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the fear of anything new
Neophobia -
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Animals Sample Novel Foods
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Beijing fast food
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Beijing fast food
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Beijing fast food
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How does neophobia keep animals safe and help them learn
about new foods?
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Familiar-Novel Dichotomy
Rye – Novel Food
Corn
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Barley
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How do livestock select their diets?
1. with companions2. familiar foods3. foods high in nutrients and
low in toxins4. a variety of foods5. familiar foods that are rare in
the environment
They prefer to eat:
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Training Cows to Eat Weeds
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. . . by reducing novelty and
providing variety and positive feedback.
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Know your weed• Nutrients• Toxins• Nutrient/Toxin Interactions
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2. Work with the right animals
• Young• Female• Healthy• Manageable in Number and Temperament
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3. Build on how animals learn
• Reduce fear of new things
• Make the unfamiliar seem familiar
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4. Test animals in trial pastures
• Small• Provide a variety of forages
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Early Experience Matters Most
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Same strawDifferent performance
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Different experience
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Experience Influences Performance
Body weight ** *Body condition ** *Milk production ** -Post-partum interval ** -
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3
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Strategic supplementation
improves use of forage and landscapes
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• Low moisture blocks (LMB) contain 2 – 4 % moisture.• LMB are available in 125 - 250 lb containers.• LMB (250 lb) only need to be replaced about once every 2 weeks when fed 1 barrel per 25 cows.
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Low moisture block (LMB) effectively
increased and focused grazing in moderate terrain.
LMB attracted cows to graze difficult terrain that typically was not used.
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Low-moisture block can be placed with an ATV and trailer in steep, rocky terrain
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Training is critical for supplement to be an effective tool to improve grazing distribution.
Animals must also know where supplement is located.
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The question isn’t: Do animals learn?
They learn everyday.
The question is:Do we as managers want to
bepart of the process?
Website: extension.usu.edu/behave