An Animal’s Early Experience Outside Can Change Its Body Inside
The animals you’ve got could behave and eat differently and even have different internal adaptations if you give them different experiences when they’re young.
Why do animals eat certain foods and live in certain locations? Your first thought might be that the
- Published: 5 years ago on August 1, 2016
- By: Beth Burritt
- Last Modified: August 1, 2016 @ 10:25 pm
- Filed Under: Behavior, Livestock
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Great read, Beth. Utah State has done a lot of ground breaking research in this field.
What Beth brought out with the sheep and goats also is the same for cows.
Cows existed in the wild by eating everything available. that diversity kept her alive by eating plants with higher levels of protein to increase digestion of lower quality plants that contained energy. Cows are more capable than most can imagine. Let a cow be a cow. She knows what to do if she is not overfed.