. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. 56 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED certain localities where the hay and other roughages are unusually low in calcium and phosphorus, due to the poverty of the soil in these elements, the bones of farm animals may become so brittle that they break with surprising ease. Growing animals, whose bones are rapidly increasing in size, suffer from a lack of these mineral elements sooner than mature animals.
. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. 56 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED certain localities where the hay and other roughages are unusually low in calcium and phosphorus, due to the poverty of the soil in these elements, the bones of farm animals may become so brittle that they break with surprising ease. Growing animals, whose bones are rapidly increasing in size, suffer from a lack of these mineral elements sooner than mature animals. Because they are fed chiefly on the cereal grains, which are low'in calcium, pigs fail to receive enough calcium more often than do calves, colts and lambs, which eat hay and other roughage as well. Of grown animals, those carrying their young or producing a heavy yield of milk are most apt to suffer from a lack of calcium or Fig. 15.—Farm Animals Need an Ample Supply op Mineral Matter Over 90 per ct. of the mineral matter in the skeleton consists of calcium and phosphorus. In certain rations the amount of these mineral elements may be in- sufficient for health. (From Ellenberger.) Fortunately, roughage from the legumes, such as clover, alfalfa, and cowpea hay, is rich in phosphorus and especially in calcium. Thus animals fed legume hay commonly receive plenty of these mineral elements. Straw, chaff, the various root crops, molasses, and the cereals and their by-products, such as bran or middlings, are generally low in calcium. Beet pulp, potatoes, molasses, straw, and chaff are low in phosphorus, while the cereals and brans, oil cakes, and slaughter-house and fish waste carry it in abundance. When there is danger of a deficiency of either calcium or phosphorus, it is. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly rese
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