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<blockquote data-quote="KNERSIE" data-source="post: 614756" data-attributes="member: 4353"><p>I'll put it differently...</p><p></p><p>The big gut isn't really the factor, its the gut capacity, or more specifically the rumen capacity. This is extremely important when your environment isn't always ideal like it would be for the showstring.</p><p></p><p>Lower quality forage can support a lower quantity of rumen microbes, hence the rumenation and digestive processes are slower in the case of lower quality forage high in cellulose. This means that the animal not only don't get as much nutrients as it needs because of the lower feed value of the forage, but the animal are also limited in the amount of the lower quality forage it can consume because of the slower rate it passes through the digestive system. Obviously the more the rumen capacity the less the animal is affected by lower quality forage as it can consume more at a time and its nutritional needs are met better because of this.</p><p></p><p>In the real world the pencil gutted animals are the first to struggle in a drought or on acidic pasture or even when fed lower quality hay. They typically can't handle straw as a maintenance feed at all. High capacity cattle fare a lot better as soon as the environment gets tough, that is a proven fact over the centuries, hopefully my explanation above cleared the reason for this up for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KNERSIE, post: 614756, member: 4353"] I'll put it differently... The big gut isn't really the factor, its the gut capacity, or more specifically the rumen capacity. This is extremely important when your environment isn't always ideal like it would be for the showstring. Lower quality forage can support a lower quantity of rumen microbes, hence the rumenation and digestive processes are slower in the case of lower quality forage high in cellulose. This means that the animal not only don't get as much nutrients as it needs because of the lower feed value of the forage, but the animal are also limited in the amount of the lower quality forage it can consume because of the slower rate it passes through the digestive system. Obviously the more the rumen capacity the less the animal is affected by lower quality forage as it can consume more at a time and its nutritional needs are met better because of this. In the real world the pencil gutted animals are the first to struggle in a drought or on acidic pasture or even when fed lower quality hay. They typically can't handle straw as a maintenance feed at all. High capacity cattle fare a lot better as soon as the environment gets tough, that is a proven fact over the centuries, hopefully my explanation above cleared the reason for this up for you. [/QUOTE]
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