@conference {69459,
	title = {The influence of sheep and cattle on the grazing preference of red deer},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {70},
	year = {2010},
	month = {Jun},
	pages = {3-7},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Palmerston North},
	abstract = {Two experiments examined the effect of sheep and cattle on the grazing preference of red deer. In the first experiment deer initially showed a significant (P <0.01) preference to graze on areas of ryegrass/white clover previously grazed for six weeks by cattle (77\% of observations) rather than by sheep (23\% of observations). However, 14 days later, deer grazing was equally distributed between cattle- and sheep-grazed areas (52\% and 48\% of observations respectively). In a second experiment deer, on pastures grazed by deer, showed no preference to graze close to cattle (48\% of observations) or sheep (52\% of observations). The strong but shortlived preference of deer for areas previously grazed by cattle cannot be explained by botanical composition, because although cattle-grazed areas contained a higher percentage of clover (22\% with cattle, 16\% with sheep), this difference was maintained for the later observation period when there was no difference in deer grazing preference. We conclude that any short-term preference shown by deer to graze with cattle rather than sheep is more likely to be due to their respective faeces/urine than their respective presence.},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Foote SA and Nicol AM and Ridgway MJ}
}
