I personally found the line about "roughage" humorous. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Doctor: He's "Lean And Muscular With No Excess Body Fat"] Reference
Then tends to make inflamed and barely healing intestines get grumpy, parituclarly when scraped with "roughage". From Wordnik.com. [My "Oh SH*T!" moment, and why I did not go to the hospital.] Reference
Yet all of the "roughage" for thirty head of stock was raised on the thirteen acres of available soil. From Wordnik.com. [Three Acres and Liberty] Reference
We certainly have been filled full of the wrong kind of roughage .... and the country is in need of some form of laxative in a big way. From Wordnik.com. [The Nation: Top Stories] Reference
Lack of sufficient fiber, bulk or roughage in diet. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 12] Reference
The idle horse will do well on less grain and more roughage. From Wordnik.com. [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference
The skins make roughage and keep the alimentary tract active. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
The second factor is the roughage characteristics of the diet. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
It is a dried roughage that can be stored for livestock fodder. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
It has a high roughage value characteristic of leafy vegetables. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
FORAGE - Any green roughage fed to cows, horses, pigs, and rabbits. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
Bladed during lunch then Chicken Cesar salad as I need some roughage. From Wordnik.com. [miss-k2 Diary Entry] Reference
MARTIN CAMPBELL, DIRECTOR: He's got a lot of roughage as he makes mistakes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2006] Reference
Utilization of oak sawdust as a roughage substitute in beef cattle rations. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Sunflower kernels husks fuel/filling material, polishing material, roughage. From Wordnik.com. [1. Oil Plants and their Potential Use] Reference
They also provide roughage, which helps to keep the bowels moving regularly. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8] Reference
In addition to grazing, provide small quantities of roughage at regular intervals. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 28] Reference
I keep an abundance of roughage, usually shredded corn, before the cows all the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm] Reference
If the animal can eat, it is not advisable to feed a heavy ration of roughage or grain. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
You're losing all the vitamins and the minerals and a lot of the roughage and everything. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2004] Reference
Both the banana forage and sweet potato forage provide desirable roughage characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
Grass, straw, and quite an amount of poor-quality roughage follow the direct route to food. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 3] Reference
The primary and most cost-effective source of feed for cattle is quality forage or roughage. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
The fodder contains protein. vitamins and minerals that are lacking in poor-quality roughage. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 21] Reference
This is in addition to roughage and root crops given daily (about 1-1½ kilos total per day). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 14] Reference
One-third to one-half of the total roughage requirement (15-20 kg/day) is given as treated straw. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
CONSTIPATION is many times caused by a too concentrated diet, or one containing too little roughage. From Wordnik.com. [Diet and Health With Key to the Calories] Reference
It has good resistance to ticks and screwworm, and can subsist on forage with a high roughage content. From Wordnik.com. [1 Microcattle] Reference
A limited quantity of roughage should be fed, and this should be good in quality and fed in the evening. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
Spoiled roots, grains and silage, mouldy, dirty roughage and decomposed slops should not be fed to live stock. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
From this process, the goats get the ability to eat roughage and the English language received the verb "ruminate.". From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
Dogs, birds, people, vehicles, milk, roughage, grains and other material from an infected farm may spread the disease. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
It's a diet high in roughage and freshness, I mean, that emphasizes the shortness of the distance from field to table. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 5, 2006] Reference
The intestines were evidently intended for a little roughage, and it might as well come partly from wheat as from other sources. From Wordnik.com. [Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency] Reference
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