The effect of different pasture structures imposed by treatments of green leaf lamina biomass (GLLB) levels of 350 and 600 kg/ha of dry matter (MS), over animals grazing behaviour was evaluated in this experiment. The pasture was oat (Avena strigosa Schreb.) and Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum Lam.). Animals activities were recorded in August and September, in 24 consecutive hours, by trained observers. In the hours of the day in which grazing were more intense, grazing stations remaining time, distance between feed stations and the frequency of remaining in each grazing site were recorded. Preference for sites located nearest to drinking points were found, in each paddock. Distances between feeding stations and time of remaining in these were similar for both treatments. The treatment with 350 kg/ha of DM of GLLB was not a biomass level that affect remaining time in grazing stations.
feeding stations; grazing site; leaf lamina
