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They say that roughage is good for a person, so I try to have a spoonful or two every day. ;-)
Done for Macro Mondays "A Spoonful Of..." theme
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De Fries-Hollandse koe is een dubbeldoelkoe uit Friesland, waarbij de nadruk meer op de melkproductie ligt dan op de vleesproductie.
Het zijn sobere sterke koeien met krachtige benen en goede klauwen. Ze hebben een goede uier met een goede speenplaatsing en de bespiering is voldoende. Wat betreft de voeding kunnen deze koeien veel ruwvoer verwerken.
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The Frisian-Dutch cow is a dual-purpose cow from Friesland, with the emphasis being more on milk production than on meat production.
They are sober strong cows with powerful legs and good claws. They have a good udder with good teat placement and the muscling is sufficient. In terms of feed, these cows can process a lot of roughage.
The poppies send up their
orange flares; swaying
in the wind, their congregations
are a levitation
of bright dust, of thin
and lacy leaves.
There isn’t a place
in this world that doesn’t
sooner or later drown
in the indigos of darkness,
but now, for a while,
the roughage
shines like a miracle
as it floats above everything
with its yellow hair.
[from "Poppies" by Mary Oliver]
Cette race a de nombreuses qualités qui en font une excellente race mixte. C'est d'abord une excellente marcheuse, une race qui se contente de fourrages grossiers, une race très maternelle au vêlage facile, un taux voisin de 98 %, soit 91 % sans aide et 7% avec aide, du mois de décembre au mois d'avril. Elle possède une très bonne fécondité de l'ordre de 98%, elle a aussi une bonne longévité, l'âge moyen de réforme étant de 11 ans. Enfin elle fournit un lait de qualité en estive, mais également en stabulation hivernale. C'est une race robuste à la santé éclatante et qui se mène aisément en grand troupeau.
This breed has many qualities that make them an excellent mixed race. It is
First a great walker, a race that just roughage,
a breed native to very easy calving, a rate close to 98% or 91% without
help and support with 7%, from December to April. It has a very
good fertility of around 98%, it also has a good longevity, the average age of
reform is 11 years. Finally it provides milk quality summer pasture, but
Also housed in winter. It's a race to the robust health and dazzling
which easily leads the herd.
Domi
Continuing eastwards but now about 150 kms beyond yesterday's pictures, traversing flat plains on the way to Cobar. Normally this terrain would be dominated by bare red soil, with feral goats chewing at whatever roughage they can find. With recent rain though, a carpet of tiny daisy flowers has transformed the landscape. More rain had caught up with me on the morning's drive and my short scramble for this picture added an inch of sticky red clay to my boots.
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Arizona House Finch partaking of the Fruit of the Prickly Pear Cactus in my front acre. I eat it myself, delicious, healthy a lot of roughage. No edit nor crop
A young elephant wraps her trunk around a bunch of grass and shoves it into her mouth. Grass provides the bulk of elephants' diets, providing a source of minerals, carbohydrates for energy, and roughage for digestion. Tarangire National Park, Tanzania.
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Summer, two years ago. The baby shrikes had fledged, but were still hanging out with each other and near their nest site. Before the end of August they would be gone, southbound with most of the migratory birds; until then, they were building their strength and flying skills while bulking up on grasshoppers.
I had several sessions with them in the warm light of early morning. This juvenile made no attempt to impale its prey; that hopper went straight down the hatch. Good protein, lots of roughage; one happy shrike and one happy photographer.
Photographed in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2022 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
Poppies
Mary Oliver
The poppies send up their
orange flares; swaying
in the wind, their congregations
are a levitation
of bright dust, of thin
and lacy leaves.
There isn’t a place
in this world that doesn’t
sooner or later drown
in the indigos of darkness,
but now, for a while,
the roughage
shines like a miracle
as it floats above everything
with its yellow hair.
Of course nothing stops the cold,
black, curved blade
from hooking forward—
of course
loss is the great lesson.
But I also say this: that light
is an invitation
to happiness,
and that happiness,
when it’s done right,
is a kind of holiness,
palpable and redemptive.
Inside the bright fields,
touched by their rough and spongy gold,
I am washed and washed
in the river
of earthly delight—
and what are you going to do—
what can you do
about it—
deep, blue night?
EXPLORE
A single pomegranate fruit showing it's love 💗
Pomegranate
(Punica granatum)
The average pomegranate fruit hold around 600 arils.
The soft juicy red fleshy part surrounding the seed is delicious and very nutritious, the seeds can be chewed and eaten also to provide roughage.
A typical 100g serving of pomegranate seeds and flesh contain on average: 7g of fiber, 3g of protein, also impressively almost a third of our required vitamin C intake.
Big thank you to everyone who:
Viewed, commented or favoured my little macro image today .... It's really appreciated my friends. 💞
For roughage. And showing nictitating membrane.
Many thanks to all who visit, view and comment upon, my efforts
Yes, golden-crowned sparrows DO eat cottonwood trees! One of many fine-dining experiences available to all at the Merced National Wildlife Refuge.
In the distance cattle graze the clifftops, others are strung across boggy moorland equally far behind me. Over this area the herd will find roughage and shelter from winter storms, whichever way the wind blows.
Towards the horizon Inch Kenneth shines emerald green as sunshine glances over the loch. It is rumoured Scottish kings were buried here when stormy seas prevented passage onwards to Iona, just visible in the far distance, described as the birthplace of Christianity in Scotland and established as a holy isle when St Columba arrived and founded a monastery in 563AD.
Looks like whatever morsel the parent is bringing, it also includes a tiny bit of roughage.
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A timely and candid fun shot when jumbo is doing a deposit....
Taken at Masai Mara Game Reserve...
Diet facts of elephant
Elephants eat between 149 and 169 kg (330-375 lb.) of vegetation daily.
Sixteen to eighteen hours, or nearly 80% of an elephant’s day is spent feeding. Elephants consume grasses, small plants, bushes, fruit, twigs, tree bark, and roots.
Tree bark is a favourite food source for elephants. It contains calcium and roughage, which aids digestion. Tusks are used to carve into the trunk and tear off strips of bark.
Elephants require about 68.4 to 98.8 L (18 to 26 gal.) of water daily, but may consume up to 152 L (40 gal.). An adult male elephant can drink up to 212 L (55 gal.) of water in less than five minutes.
To supplement the diet, elephants will dig up earth to obtain salt and minerals. The tusks are used to churn the ground. The elephant then places dislodged pieces of soil into its mouth, to obtain nutrients.
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Lesser Whitethroat / sylvia curruca. Attenborough, Nottinghamshire. 11/06/21.
'SMORGASBORD ... WITH LEGS.'
A very diligent, hard working Lesser Whitethroat.
Both parents were experiencing no difficulty in gathering food for their young in the immediate area around the bramble nest site.
This particular food delivery was a varied smorgasbord, offering plenty of roughage in the form of legs - impressive!!!
It was a great privilege to observe the parental duty patterns/ behaviours of these summer visitors. Lesser Whitethroats are usually quite secretive and skulking in my experience.
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
I watched this Eastern grey squirrel snack on the pond's iris leaves this morning. The temperatures should reach the mid 60s F (18 C) but there's still plenty of snow that is either in the shadow of a fence, tree, or building. I wouldn't think there would be that much nutrition in the dried leaves but it may just be roughage for all those nuts.
While waiting for sunrise I picked out some details in the valleys below. I really liked this seam of green in a valley of pastels. Everywhere you look there's something unique.
In recent journeys, I was taken by glorious tile mosaics, in Istanbul, St. Petersburg, Russia, etc.
In Portland, a grocery company dresses up its buildings with sweet ones.
Actually, the correct spelling is "Deuce". But I couldn't resist the timing of this moment. Especially when it's a produce delivery van, too. So, buy a truckload of roughage, if need be. That's how one can be as regular as a German train schedule. At my age it's important, you know. =)
Happy Whimsical Wednesday, everyone! =)
Sauvie Island was awash with Kestrels yesterday. We saw more than a dozen of them, which was a real treat, as they are a favorite of mine.
I'm torn on sharing Kestrel pics, as they predominantly enjoy sitting on power lines, while watching below for mice, voles, and other tasty little rodents to pop their heads out of their holes in the roughage that generally undelies power lines. Which leads to my desire to show the beauty of the bird without showing the ugly of the power line.
Right or wrong, I've chopped the power line out of this pic, choosing to lose the tail of the Kestrel along with the power line on which it was sitting.
Because we can! That's why I'm recalling this scene from Santa Cruz in the Galapagos Archipelago.
The islands of the Galapagos are a bit like New Zealand — the land animal population is dominated by reptiles and birds. Mammals are mostly absent. Along the coast, the marine iguanas and lava lizards are most obvious. Up here in the highlands it's hard to miss a 300kg lawn mower.
With a reptilian metabolism, and a vegetarian diet necessitated by being a bit too slow to eat anything else — even here in the warmth of the Equator — these giant tortoises just take it easy. Here's a lifestyle made up of ⅓ eating and ⅔ sleeping. It's just as well plants sit still. The dietary intake of these whoppers is about 35kg/day of prime roughage. We can probably speculate that during the ⅔ phase of their day they are digesting an awful lot of compost!
Without teeth, the mastication process of giant tortoises is rudimentary — a bit of a munch, munch, swallow kind of affair. Again, I can only speculate that the digestion of this salad involves a rich bacterial microbiome and gastroliths — not very efficient, but evidently good enough for a slow and steady lifestyle on the Equator.
"Elephants eat between 149 and 169 kg of vegetation daily.
Sixteen to eighteen hours or nearly 80% of an elephant’s day is spent feeding. Elephants consume grasses, small plants, bushes, fruit, twigs, tree bark, and roots.
Tree bark is a favourite food source for elephants. It contains calcium and roughage, which aids digestion. Tusks are used to carve into the trunk and tear off strips of bark."
Info source URL: seaworld.org/animals/all-about/elephants/diet/
Studies have shown that horses are more likely to gnaw on wood during wet, cold weather. It is thought that it may be due to an instinctive urge for more roughage as temperatures fall.
Part of a horse’s natural diet includes browsing and nibbling on bark and small branches that provide woody fibre. When horses are denied the ability to perform this behavior, they may resort to chewing on fence boards, barn siding, or anything else they can reach – particularly in the wet winter months.
Photographed in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia.
Kookaburras in the wild eat mainly mice, small birds, snakes and lizards, worms, beetles and centipedes. The feathers and fur provide roughage while the bones and insect shells provide calcium.
Kookaburras regurgitate a cast of undigested material in the form of a pellet, usually once a day.
According to Birdlife Australia, this iconic species is in serious decline and at risk of becoming endangered in certain parts of Australia. The decline has been attributed to a number of causes including an increase in feral predators.
Photographed in South Africa from a safari vehicle, no cover
I can understand why much of the items eaten by elephants and other herbivores are considered by them to be worth eating...but I'm guessing branches this size can only be considered roughage.
As you can see, I've included a large amount of information from Wikipedia. Upon reading it, I learned that elephants are left or right-tusked...much like left or right-handed people. Please make sure to read about this characteristic below...and you may want to click on the Wikipedia link because I didn't include everything. There's a ton more interesting facts about elephants.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant
From Wikipedia: Elephants are the largest existing land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea. The order was formerly much more diverse during the Pleistocene, but most species became extinct during the Late Pleistocene epoch. Distinctive features of elephants include a long proboscis called a trunk, tusks, large ear flaps, pillar-like legs, and tough but sensitive skin. The trunk is used for breathing and is prehensile, bringing food and water to the mouth, and grasping objects. Tusks, which are derived from the incisor teeth, serve both as weapons and as tools for moving objects and digging. The large ear flaps assist in maintaining a constant body temperature as well as in communication. African elephants have larger ears and concave backs, whereas Asian elephants have smaller ears, and convex or level backs.
Anatomy:
Elephants are the largest living terrestrial animals.
Ears and eyes:
Elephant ears have thick bases with thin tips. The ear flaps, or pinnae, contain numerous blood vessels called capillaries. Warm blood flows into the capillaries, helping to release excess body heat into the environment. This occurs when the pinnae are still, and the animal can enhance the effect by flapping them. Larger ear surfaces contain more capillaries, and more heat can be released. Of all the elephants, African bush elephants live in the hottest climates, and have the largest ear flaps. Elephants are capable of hearing at low frequencies and are most sensitive at 1 kHz (in close proximity to the Soprano C).
Lacking a lacrimal apparatus, the eye relies on the harderian gland to keep it moist. A durable nictitating membrane protects the eye globe. The animal's field of vision is compromised by the location and limited mobility of the eyes. Elephants are considered dichromats and they can see well in dim light but not in bright light.
Trunk:
The trunk, or proboscis, is a fusion of the nose and upper lip, although in early fetal life, the upper lip and trunk are separated. The trunk is elongated and specialised to become the elephant's most important and versatile appendage. It contains up to 150,000 separate muscle fascicles, with no bone and little fat. These paired muscles consist of two major types: superficial (surface) and internal. The former are divided into dorsals, ventrals, and laterals while the latter are divided into transverse and radiating muscles. The muscles of the trunk connect to a bony opening in the skull.
Teeth:
Elephants usually have 26 teeth: the incisors, known as the tusks, 12 deciduous premolars, and 12 molars. Unlike most mammals, which grow baby teeth and then replace them with a single permanent set of adult teeth, elephants are polyphyodonts that have cycles of tooth rotation throughout their lives. The chewing teeth are replaced six times in a typical elephant's lifetime. Teeth are not replaced by new ones emerging from the jaws vertically as in most mammals. Instead, new teeth grow in at the back of the mouth and move forward to push out the old ones. The first chewing tooth on each side of the jaw falls out when the elephant is two to three years old. The second set of chewing teeth falls out at four to six years old. The third set falls out at 9–15 years of age and set four lasts until 18–28 years of age. The fifth set of teeth falls out at the early 40s. The sixth (and usually final) set must last the elephant the rest of its life. Elephant teeth have loop-shaped dental ridges, which are thicker and more diamond-shaped in African elephants.
Tusks:
The tusks of an elephant are modified second incisors in the upper jaw. They replace deciduous milk teeth at 6–12 months of age and grow continuously at about 17 cm (7 in) a year. A newly developed tusk has a smooth enamel cap that eventually wears off. The dentine is known as ivory and its cross-section consists of crisscrossing line patterns, known as "engine turning", which create diamond-shaped areas. As a piece of living tissue, a tusk is relatively soft; it is as hard as the mineral calcite. Much of the tusk can be seen outside; the rest is in a socket in the skull. At least one-third of the tusk contains the pulp and some have nerves stretching to the tip. Thus it would be difficult to remove it without harming the animal. When removed, ivory begins to dry up and crack if not kept cool and moist. Tusks serve multiple purposes. They are used for digging for water, salt, and roots; debarking or marking trees; and for moving trees and branches when clearing a path. When fighting, they are used to attack and defend, and to protect the trunk.
Like humans, who are typically right- or left-handed, elephants are usually right- or left-tusked. The dominant tusk, called the master tusk, is generally more worn down, as it is shorter with a rounder tip. For the African elephants, tusks are present in both males and females, and are around the same length in both sexes, reaching up to 300 cm (9 ft 10 in),[50] but those of males tend to be thicker.[51] In earlier times, elephant tusks weighing over 200 pounds (more than 90 kg) were not uncommon, though it is rare today to see any over 100 pounds (45 kg).
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Roughage to follow up the rich food of Friday (I basically didn't eat yesterday, I was still so full!).
Brought for nestlings as food/calcium/roughage. Added to photostream to add to the catalog of prey parents bringing to nestlings in Arroyo Grande, CA in June 2015.
This is a scary clouds and sky shot I took at Golden Ponds to wrap up the series without looking into directory storage; I promise. We were just getting rid of weather that was skating overhead and awaiting more. I happened upon new and interesting sky shots at Golden Ponds recently and extend the series with this roughage. The day might be shortened by the approaching heavy sky. The oncoming clouds had so much light on them that I had to crank the exposure way down. Shaking the camera was not a concern @ 2500th.
When I see a sky like this, I grab my camera bag on the way out the door. When I I suppose that should someone want an extended viewing, a Golden Ponds commemorative bench would offer a great venue. Take a slicker or poncho.
This is a view across Golden gravel pit ponds toward the Rockies divide at an open spot. I decided on a further but hurried walk around Golden Ponds Park and followed the trail along the creek and south while shooting the sky in interesting spots. Some venues did not work at all. The early summer runoff is at a maximum. I can't call this a line of clouds but rather a solid mass with a maximum sculpting. Boy, what a major buildup. Scientists told all believers and non-believers alike to expect more violent weather swings as the atmospheres warm as the Trumpettes head to the Bonn Climate summit to sell clean coal and natural gas as the only treaty holdout country. Mayors from several American cities made up for the buffoons.
This path continues on southward over the river and eventually swings around westward toward the Vance Brand Municipal Airport. The building sky is not that described by the usual TV's weather-panic sales pitch. My current plan is to travel to any spot that sets off the heavy skies. As always, an afternoon sprinkle is supremely welcome but it never happened Saturday. The clouding held out overnight and sealed in the temps and humditty.