Time on Pasture
There was a highly significant Treatment × Day interaction for presence
of cattle on pasture (P = 1.5×10–6). It was
apparent that Control cattle basically never returned onto pasture
during the trial (Figure 6). However, for the two treatment groups,
after initially none being on pasture, all were on pasture by Day 6.
Although TS showed a faster return to pasture than MO, it was not
possible to formally test this. There were no significant effects of Age
(P = 0.791) nor Sex (P = 0.661) on the probability of
being on pasture; there was some evidence of breed differences (P= 0.023), but breed estimates could not be relied upon because of small
number in some breeds.