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.