Dry sorghum fodder is counted about the poorest roughage that one would think of harvesting.
Such hay would seem to be most serviceable as roughage for cows or steers in connection with alfalfa hay or some other feed which would supply this deficiency.
From early November until May it will be necessary to provide stabling facilities, roughage in the form of hay, ensilage or beet pulp, and concentrated feed to keep the animal producing.
When the cow is on pasture from May until November no other roughage is required, provided of course the grasses and clovers are plentiful.
It is possible to purchase all roughagematerials and yet make a financial success of growing farm animals, but this certainly is not the surest way to succeed.
The skins make roughage and keep the alimentary tract active.
You want the skin because it has things in it you need for your body, and especially for your brain, and you need especially the roughage the skin gives.
Spoiled roots, grains and silage, mouldy, dirty roughage and decomposed slops should not be fed to live stock.
The causes are irritation from the bit, sharp teeth, irritating drenches, roughage that contains beards or awns of grasses and grains, and burrs that wound the lining membrane of the mouth.
If the animal can eat, it is not advisable to feed a heavy ration of roughage or grain.
Over-distention of the stomach and intestines due to feeding too much roughage and grain interferes with respiration.
When the mouth is inflamed, roughage should be fed rather sparingly, and soft feeds such as slops, mashes, or gruels given in place of the regular diet.
This fungus grows on certain plants, and the animal usually contracts the disease by eating plants or roughage that have the fungus on them.
Obstruction colic is very often caused by the feeding of too much roughage in the form of straw, shredded fodder, or hay.
A limited quantity of roughage should be fed, and this should be good in quality and fed in the evening.
The geese will eat a considerable amount of this which thus helps to supply the roughage which they need.
Some roughage such as vegetables or hay should also be supplied.
Roughage is supplied if not available otherwise and straw, hay or vegetables are utilized for this purpose.
The grain should be fed twice a day throughout the winter and should be given rather sparingly, depending on roughage to make up the bulk of the feed.
This mash is generally fed in the morning with the vegetables or roughage and may consist of three parts bran or shorts, one part corn meal and one-fourth part meat scrap.
Vegetables, clover or alfalfa hay, chopped corn stover or silage make good roughage for this purpose.
It is on this roughage or waste material that intestinal movement or peristalsis depends.
As the result of improvements in diet and refinements in cooking and the preparation of foods, less and less of their roughage is left in our articles of food when sent to the table.
On the other hand, there are places where the minimum amount of roughage is wanted.
Either the wheat or the oats could be taken out of this rotation if either the one or the other were thought undesirable and a still greater amount of roughage desired.
In this rotation the only roughageobtained is the corn stover and the oat straw.
In it had been placed all of the manure and waste of the household and street, all stubble and waste roughage from the field, all ashes not to be applied directly and some of the soil stacked in the street.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roughage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
