A method for obtaining quantitative diet information for sheep is described. It requires no elaborate equipment or procedures. Dietary intake is measured as the daily difference in available forage in a heavily- grazed enclosure; the forage is measured using the Adelaide technique . This procedure gives data with smooth curves suitable for use in preference models and indices, and a new "Area" index was developed to summarize the data from these experiments. The advantages of the method are that it does not require elaborate equipment or techniques, dietary intake is averaged over all of the sheep and the whole of each grazing period, and the sheep appear to graze normally. Its principal . . . . .
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