@conference {41504,
	title = {Ill-thrift in young growing cattle and sheep},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {64},
	year = {2004},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {197-202},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Hamilton},
	abstract = {A questionnaire survey was designed to gauge consumer interest in goat meat.  The questionnaire was responded to  by 98 households living in or near Tokyo. The main results of the survey are as follows. 1) Impression of goat meat;  61\% of the respondents indicated that goat meat was {\`\i}not common in their home{\^\i}. 2) Consumer experience; only 16\%  of the respondents had experience of eating goat meat and they felt goat meat is {\`\i}smelly{\^\i}(50\%), {\`\i}tender{\^\i}(38\%) and  {\`\i}delicious{\^\i}(31\%). 3) The two main reasons why consumers have not eaten goat meat were {\`\i}lack of purchasing  opportunity{\^\i}(78\%) and {\`\i}don{\'\i}t feel like eating it{\^\i}(18\%). 4) Options to promote goat meat consumption; 52\% of  respondents who have not eaten goat meat were prepared  to purchase if it was available in the supermarket at a  reasonable price and if recipes were added with the meat package. 5) Reasons for people not purchasing goat meat  included {\`\i}dislike of new meat{\^\i} and {\`\i}pity for the goat{\^\i}.  These results show that goat meat can be promoted to the Japanese households as {\`\i}a new product{\^\i} if the price is  reasonable and recipes are added to the package. However,  a considerable number of market strategies need to be  implemented to achieve the acceptance of goat meat by Japanese consumers.},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Litherland AJ and Layton DL and Boom CJ and Knight TL and Hyslop M and Lambert MG and Cook TL}
}
@conference {41333,
	title = {Seasonal variations in pasture quality on New Zealand sheep and beef farms},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {62},
	year = {2002},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {138-142},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Palmerston North},
	abstract = {Nineteen sheep and beef farmers in the Waikato, Tararua, Canterbury and Southland regions collected two pre-grazing pasture samples offered to either lambs or bulls once every month from autumn 2000 to autumn 2001. One sample of pasture on offer was collected to ground level and the other was hand plucked to represent pasture selected by animals. The samples were analysed by NIRS for chemical composition and dissected into morphological components. Energy concentration of herbage was lowest in autumn and highest in spring. Energy concentrations of offered pasture were 8.1, 9.2, 7.6 and 10.0 MJME/kg DM in autumn and 10.3, 11.6, 10.8 and 11.4 MJME/kg DM in spring in Waikato, Tararua, Canterbury and Southland, respectively. Crude-protein, fibre and soluble-carbohydrate concentrations reflected the changes in ME. Variations in dead material and reproductive stem were the main causes of changes in ME. Predicted liveweight gain of 350-kg bulls grazing pasture with a pre- and post-grazing herbage mass of 2500 and 1500 kgDM/ha respectively, were 0.4, 0.8, 0.0, and 1.1 kg/d in autumn, and 1.2, 1.5, 1.4 and 1.6 kg/d in spring, for Waikato, Tararua, Canterbury and Southland regions, respectively. It is concluded that high animal performance in summer and autumn may not be achieved in summer-warm regions without the addition of high-quality forages or supplements. },
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Litherland AJ and Woodward SJR and Stevens DR and McDougal DB and Boom CJ and Knight TL and Lambert MG}
}
@conference {41157,
	title = {Liveweight gain of young sheep grazing tall fescue or perennial ryegrass swards of different white clover content},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {60},
	year = {2000},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {51-54},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Hamilton},
	abstract = {It is not clear whether the inherent qualities of tall fescue or the legumes grown with it are responsible for the wide range of liveweight gains in young sheep grazing these swards. The objective of this experiment was to determine the value of the white clover content in tall fescue swards relative to perennial ryegrass/white clover swards in respect to live weight gain in young sheep. Nine trials (ranging from 41 to 190 days) were conducted at AgResearch Poukawa and AgResearch Lincoln from spring 1995 to autumn 1997 using 15 animals as replicates in 19 treatments. Overall, live weight gains ranged from {\textendash}87 to 366 g/head/day. Even small increases in clover content had large positive effects on liveweight gain of young sheep grazing both perennial ryegrass and tall fescue. At the same pasture mass and composition, all spring grazing liveweight gains were significantly greater than those in autumn (P<0.001). Tall fescue swards appear to sometimes produce higher liveweight gains than perennial ryegrass-based swards, but this is by virtue of growing more white clover, particularly in spring.},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Hyslop MG and Fraser TJ and Smith DR and Knight TL and Slay MWA and Moffat CA}
}
