. 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. 52 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED ever, the greater part of the food is required merely as fuel to keep up the body temperature. Hence, except for the pig, maintenance rations for the larger farm animals may consist largely of cheap roughages, such as hay and straw, which furnish abundant heat but do not yield much net energy. This has great practical importance, for it shows why idle horses and st
. 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. 52 FEEDS AND FEEDING, ABRIDGED ever, the greater part of the food is required merely as fuel to keep up the body temperature. Hence, except for the pig, maintenance rations for the larger farm animals may consist largely of cheap roughages, such as hay and straw, which furnish abundant heat but do not yield much net energy. This has great practical importance, for it shows why idle horses and stock cattle can be carried thru the winter on roughage alone, without grain. It is commonly assumed in computing rations that the amount of feed required to maintain an animal depends on its body Pig. 14.—Heavily-fed Animals Oedinaeily Have an Excess of Heat Heavily-fed fattening steers thrive best with no shelter except an open shed, but animals being carried thru the winter on scanty rations need warmer quar- ters. (From Prairie Farmer.) Strictly speaking, however, the maintenance requirement depends not on the live weight, but on the body surface. This is due to the fact that the loss of heat from the body is proportional to the body sur- face and not to its weight. A 1,600-lb. steer does not have twice the body surface of an 800-lb. one, and hence will not require twice as much feed for maintenance. Individual animals of the same kind and size may also differ somewhat in their requirements. For example, a quiet animal uses up less body fuel than a nervous, active one. Due chiefly to increased muscular action, an animal when stand-. 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 resemble the original Henry, W. A. (William Arnon), 1850-1932; Morrison, F. B. (Frank Barron), 1887-1958. Madison, Wis. , The Henry-Morriso
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