Generally, it is assumed that good roughage quality is likely to increase substitution rates and reduce production responses to supplements23,24.
All animals were fed with rice straw treated with 50 g urea/l as the source of roughage in combination with a similar concentrate throughout the experiments.
We hear a great deal about this roughage question.
We have got 330,000 tons of this roughage out of it, and it has put that back unfortunately indefinitely.
I would get a scratching effect and would consume a lot of roughage.
I am not sure whether there should be this allowance in respect of calves getting food with no roughage at all.
In other words, in veal units roughage was not being given.
The food had no roughage, but nowadays one cannot buy food without the proper fibre and so on.
