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Oliveira Júnior,Carlos Alberto; Riet-Correa,Gabriela; Lima,Everton; Leite,Danilo Maia; Pfister,James A.; Cook,Daniel; Riet-Correa,Franklin. |
Ipomoea carnea is a toxic plant that grazing goats and cattle may learn to ingest with repeated exposure. The objective of this study was to evaluate the feeding preferences of experienced and non-experienced (naïve) goats and sheep for I. carnea.The study used 3 groups of 5 goats (Group 1, experienced that were previously poisoned by the plant; group 2, naïve; Group 3, experienced eaters, composed of animals adapted to eat the fresh plant) and 2 groups of sheep (group 4, experienced that were previously poisoned by the plant; and group 5, naïve). For the test, the animals were placed daily for 10 minutes and 4 days in a rectangular stall (5x7m) with 4 feeders, each with 200g of a different food (Ipomoea carnea, commercial concentrate food, recently... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Feeding behavior; Ipomoea spp; Poisonous plants; Swainsonine-containing plants. |
Ano: 2015 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782015000901634 |
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Oliveira Júnior,Carlos Alberto; Riet-Correa,Gabriela; Tavares,Carla; Souza,Elda; Cerqueira,Valíria Duarte; Pfister,James; Cook,Daniel; Riet-Correa,Franklin. |
Ipomoea carnea is a toxic plant often ingested by livestock in Brazil. Three experiments were conducted to determine if conditioned food aversion was effective in reducing goats' consumption of I. carnea. In the first experiment, 10 mildly intoxicated goats that had been eating I. carnea were averted using LiCl (175 to 200mg kg-1 body weight). These intoxicated goats did not develop an aversion to I. carnea, demonstrating that the technique is not effective in goats that are already accustomed to consuming the plant. In the second experiment, 14 naïve goats were placed in a pasture with I. carnea, and averted after they ingested the plant. In this group the aversion persisted until the end of the experiment, 2 years and 8 months after the initial aversion.... |
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Poisonous plants; Swainsonine; Conditioned food aversion; Lithium chloride. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782014000701240 |
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