Voluntary dry matter intake (VDMI) of forages by ruminants may be limited by distention
resulting from restricted flow of digesta through the gastrointestinal tract. An animal's …

Voluntary food intake and the selection between foods are important subjects especially in
ruminants in view of the economic importance of this class of animal and the complex …

Feeding behaviour--Feedbacks from the gastrointestinal tract--Metabolites and hormones--
Central nervous system and the special senses--Learning about food; conditioned …

Experiments on Angus steer progeny following a single generation of divergent selection for
residual feed intake suggest that there are many physiological mechanisms contributing to …

The objectives of this study were to characterize feed efficiency traits and to examine
phenotypic correlations between performance and feeding behavior traits, and ultrasound …

This chapter discusses the historical development of quantitative indices of forage quality,
and the practical application of forage quality indices, including their prediction from …

1. Theoretical studies of large herbivore foraging assume that total daily grazing time is a
key constraint on daily intake and diet choice. We experimentally tested this assumption and …

Alpine yearling doelings (22; 44±1.0 kg) and mature does (25; 59±1.7 kg) were used in an
experiment with 16 weeks in late lactation, 8–13 weeks dry and 12 weeks in the subsequent …

A new theory of feed intake regulation in ruminants has been developed as an alternative to
the traditional view that feed consumption is limited by the physical and physiological …

The purpose of the present paper is to review recent theoretical developments in food intake
modelling applied to animal science and ecology. The models are divided into those that …