Factors influencing forage preference of bushbuck and boer goats for Subtropical Thicket plants

Abstract

Reports on a study conducted to investigate whether bushbuck and boer goats, when given a choice of equally available plants, base their selection on a common set of criteria. Illustrates with tables and a graph

Keywords: Boer goats; Bushbuck; Capra hircus; Chemical analyses; Data analyses; Diet selection; Forages; Foraging; Intake rates; PCA; Plant characteristics; Plant selection; Selection trials; Thicket plant species; Tragelaphus scriptus; botany; south africa; eastern cape; feeding preferences; preference; goats; subtropical thicket; thicket; plants; feeding trial

African Journal of Range & Forage Science, Vol. 14, Iss 2, p.49-55