@conference {40795,
	title = {The use of a novel approach to determine the influence of sward characteristics on the discriminatory grazing behaviour of dairy cows},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {56},
	year = {1996},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {122-124},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Dairy cows were offered choices of patches of vegetation (0.8m2) on a  perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) sward providing combinations of  five levels of sward height (8.9 - 19.6 cm) and three levels of herbage bulk  density (1.3 - 1.6 mg DM/cm3) in linear sequence. Four cows were used,  each of which grazed two out of a balanced set of eight sequences, each  sequence being replicated three times in a set of 27 patches in linear  sequence. Animal responses were monitored in terms of grazing time and  number of bites per patch. Bite number per patch increased from zero to 54 (SEM },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Griffiths WM and Hodgson J and Holmes CW and Arnold GC}
}
