Conditioned Food Aversion: From Theory to Practice

Authors

Michael H. Ralphs
Frederick D. Provenza, Utah State UniversityFollow
James A. Pfister
David Graham
Glenn C. Duff
Gary Greathouse

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Rangelands

Volume

23

Issue

2

Publisher

Society for Range Management

Publication Date

2001

Recommended Citation

RAlphs, M. H., Provenza, F. D., Pfister, J. A., Graham, D., Duff, G. & Greathouse, G. (2001). Conditioned Food Aversion: From Theory to Practice. Rangelands, 23(2), 14-18.

First Page

14

Last Page

18

Abstract

In most plant communities there are plants that can poison animals. A few plants contain high levels of toxins, or contain highly toxic compounds, and pose a real threat to grazing livestock. Some of these plants may be readily grazed by livestock, which makes it difficult to manage around them. Conditioned food aversion offers a way to train livestock to avoid eating specific poisonous plants.

Comments

Originally published by the Society for Range Management. Publisher's PDF available through remote link via JSTOR.