@conference {39796,
	title = {Diet selection by goats and sheep on hill country},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {42},
	year = {1982},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {155-158},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	abstract = {Diet quality was measured using oesophageally-fistulated lactating Dorset ewes offered herbage allowances of 8 (H), 5 (M) and 2 (L) kg DM/ewe/d. Ewes on all allowances tended to have a similar selection preference for grass and clover; those on H and M allowances consumed proportionately more clover and less dead material than L ewes. The mean DDM of herbage selected by ewes in H and M groups averaged 0.790 and was 0.734 for L ewes compared with 0.727 for sward samples taken pre-grazing. The ME content of DM consumed by H and M ewes was 7\% greater than for L ewes. It is suggested that the lower digestibility of the diets of L ewes was due to a higher consumption of dead material and plant stalk than in ewes on H and M allowances.},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Clark DA and Lambert MG and Rolston MP and Dymock N}
}
