Table 2.

Sub-categories from the “feeding/fodder” category (Table 1), categorised and sorted by the authors by coincidences in contents (n = 144; 16 informants with no answer in this category; 1 questionnaire not analysable; 416 practices mentioned in total)

Sub-Category	Number of practices	Explication	Examples of practices
Kind of fodder/feed	164	Composition of fodder and different components of particular fodder, including feeding composition at a particular stage of animal life	“mountain meadow hay”, “wheat bran”, “colostrum” …
			“14 days before calving, feeding of …”
Quality of fodder	125	Different terms for high quality	“clean”, “healthy”, “good”, “own”
Feeding ration	65	Amount of feeding ration and appropriate rate of different components of the fodder	“more hay than silage“, “enough of…”, “not too much of …”
Method of fodder production	39	Methods concerning mainly grassland	“no artificial fertiliser for grassland”, “mowing after sunset”, “mowing when grasses are mature”
Other sub-categories	23		“naturally feeding”, “organic agriculture”