The continuum between preferences and aversions for flavoured foods in sheep conditioned by administration of casein doses

Author:

Arsenos G.,Kyriazakis I.

Abstract

AbstractThe main objective of the experiment was to investigate whether a continuum links the development of conditioned flavour preferences and conditioned flavour aversions (CFPs and CFAs) in sheep, towards food flavours associated with intraruminal administration of increasing doses of the same nutritive stimulus: casein. A secondary objective was to investigate the effects of dose of casein administration and the number of repeated exposures to casein on the rate of establishment, magnitude and degree of persistence of developed CFPs and CFAs.The experiment consisted of three conditioning periods (each lasted 8 days). A food with low crude protein (CP) (39.3 g/kg dry matter (DM)) and metabolizable energy (ME) (5.3 MJ/kg DM) contents was used in combination with one of two flavours, orange and aniseed, on a total of 48 Texel × Greyface male, 3-month-old sheep. The sheep were conditioned to associate one flavour added to the test food with a particular dose of casein (C) suspended in water (8.75, 17.5, 35 and 52.5 g per animal), or a different flavoured test food with an equal amount of water. Each dose was administered by gavage through a stomach tube twice daily to each animal. At the end of each conditioning period the preference for the two flavours was measured by a two choice preference test between the two flavoured test foods for 40 min. After the completion of the last conditioning period, three more preference tests (persistence tests), without any intervening exposure to the flavoured test food, were conducted at 7, 21 and 35 days. Preference for the flavoured test food paired with casein was affected by the interaction (P< 0·001) between the dose of casein and casein association respectively. Association with casein (DPR: intake of a flavoured test food paired with casein per g total intake of flavoured test foods during the preference test) led to CFPs (DPR > 0·70) at the two lowest and to CFAs (DPR < 0·30) at the two highest doses. CFPs and CFAs were established by the second conditioning and there was no difference in the rate of establishment between preferences and aversions. The persistence tests showed a strong and similar degree of persistence of both formed CFPs and CFAs, since these were not affected by time of persistence test or by any of the interactions with time. In view of these results a model is proposed which could account for the conditioned responses of sheep towards administration of increasing doses of the same nutrient. The existence of a continuum between CFPs and CFAs created by the same nutrient given at different doses, could be the basis of how ruminants select a diet which meets their nutrient requirements at a particular point in time and thereby avoid excess of nutrient intake.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Animal Science and Zoology

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