Kenji Sudo, Kazuhiko Ochiai, Tetsuya Ikeda and Kazuhiro Umemura (2004): Effects of Leader-follower Grazing on Herbage Yield and Nutritive Value, and Herbage Intake of Intensively Managed Pastures for ...Dairy Cattle. Grassland Science 50, 391-398. The effects of leader-follower grazing on intensively managed meadow fescue and perennial ryegrass pastures for dairy cattle were evaluated. A 1.6 ha pasture was divided into 23 paddocks (each paddock being 7 a) and 4 lactating dairy cows were grazed on each paddock for 9 hours every day using the one-day grazing system. As followers, 2 heifers were grazed on each paddock, except for 3 control paddocks, for 24 hours starting immediately after the end of the cow (leader) grazing. Surplus grass in each paddock was harvested once a year. No significant differences in herbage yield and in nutritive value of herbage subjected to leader-follower grazing were found. The leader-follower grazing improved the efficiency of pasture utilization and did not affect the herbage intake of cows which was regulated by herbage allowance. Daily body weight gain of heifers (followers) was 0.87-1.02 kg.
Nutritive value of intensive grazed pasture Togamura, Y.(National Inst. of Livestock and Grassland Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki (Japan)); Ochiai, K; Otsuki, K ...
Proceedings of Japanese Society for Animal Nutrition and Metabolism (Japan),
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The paddock examined was planted in Isaszeg in april 1996 with a mixture of Bromus inermis, Festuca rubra and Poa pratensis. The area was rather dry. The soil type on most of the area was rusty brown ...forest soil with a sandy loam texture. The experiment was set up on the second growth in 1998 in a Latin square design with 10 plots of 250 square metres. Ammonium nitrate treatments equal to 50, 100, 150 and 200 kg/ha N active agent were set up on two plots each on 22 May 1998. Six half-bred Hungarian horses (5 mares from various age-groups and a gelded horse) were involved in the examination.
