Show Pasture Not Sufficient Dairy calves under six months old will not do well on pasture. It takes ' some time to develop the digestive system sys-tem of a calf sufficiently to enable it to get a large proportion of needed nutrients nu-trients from roughage. Grass is a succulent suc-culent roughage relatively high In water wa-ter content and therefore relatively low in nutrient content for its bulk. It takes some time for calves to learn to graze pasture grass to the extent that they are able to satisfy their requirements re-quirements from this bulky roughage. There is advantage in giving calves n grass paddock for exercise but one should not depend on the grass to supply sup-ply any great portion of needed nutrients. |