Proposal to use time spent chewing as an index of the extent to which diets for ruminants possess the physical property of fibrousness characteristic of roughages.
D000821:Animal Feed; D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D008409:Mastication; D006109:Poaceae; D012417:Rumen / Q000378:metabolism; D012820:Silage; D013997:Time Factors