ArticleVeterinary and animal science2025
Foraging preferences of dairy cows grazing on contrasted multispecies swards.
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- Forage selection of dairy cows grazing contrasting multispecies swards is influenced by cow characteristics.Veterinary and animal science · 2026Article
- Leveraging dairy cattle dietary preference for pasture diversification to optimize marginal land recruitment into agroecosystems.JDS communications · 2026Article
- The Dairy Ruminant Gut Microbiome: Profile, Responsiveness to Seasonality and Impact on Milk Quality.Environmental microbiology · 2026Review
- Grazed bite item diversity of beef cows grazing semi-natural grassland in relation to herbage nutritive value and the actually available diversity of bite items.Translational animal science · 2025Article
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Abstract
Selective foraging has been reported in many wild and domesticated ruminants, yet modern livestock production systems rarely allow animals to express this natural behaviour. However, it is assumed that giving livestock the opportunity for forage selection positively influences their health and welfare. This study investigated the forage selection of individual dairy cows on pasture. Over one grazing season, a herd of 23 dairy cows was observed grazing on an experimental pasture in Switzerland, which consisted of different plant mixtures. The cows had unrestricted access to all mixtures and their individual foraging behaviour was documented by scan sampling. The four mixtures were rich in grasses (G), grasses and legumes (L), grasses and tanniferous plants (T), and grasses and herbs containing essential oils (E). The results revealed a partial preference for the L mixture at herd level across all grazing rotations (
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