Examples of roughage

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Part, but not all, of this discrepancy is related to higher losses of methane and fermentation heat with roughages.
Second, it was agreed that supplementation experiments should aim to understand dose-response patterns and interactions between supplements and basal roughages.
Therefore, both conventional and organic dairy farms primarily supplement roughages with concentrates, containing high proportions of cereal grains.
Substitutional supplementation uses large quantities of good feed to satisfy the need of high producing animals, if necessary at the expense of intake of poor quality roughages.
Catalytic supplementation refers here to the use of small amounts of supplement that improve rumen function to enhance the digestibility of the basal roughage.
In general, roughage supplementation is higher during the dry than the wet season.
The larger amount of roughage has the effect of increasing stool weight and decreasing the time taken to traverse the gastrointestinal tract.
Food with roughage, as that grotesque metaphor of eating as manual work with a shovel suggests, was a return to virile rough labor from the inside out.
The total quantities of feedingstuffs available to farmers, including grass, hay and roughages, cannot be estimated accurately.
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