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2014

Animal nutrition

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Benefits Of Exposing Animals To Poor-Quality Foods Early In Life, Beth Burritt Jun 2014

Benefits Of Exposing Animals To Poor-Quality Foods Early In Life, Beth Burritt

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This fact sheet provides research examples of how exposure early in life to poor-quality or high-toxin forages can increase intake and preference for certain forages and improve the productivity of livestock.


Nutritional Value And Toxins In Various Noxious Weeds, Beth Burritt, Rae Ann Hart May 2014

Nutritional Value And Toxins In Various Noxious Weeds, Beth Burritt, Rae Ann Hart

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Teaching animals to eat noxious weeds may be a solution to reducing noxious weeds. Grazing animals often avoid eating weeds due to novelty even though weeds are often as nutritious as many of our planted pasture and rangelands species. This fact sheet provides livestock producers with the nutritive values of many common weeds. These values were summarized from a variety of peer-reviewed journal articles.