Qui potissimum quaeque pecudum pascatur, habenda ratio, nec solum quod faeno fit satura equa aut bos, cum sues hoc vitent et quaerant glandem, sed quod hordeum et faba interdum sit quibusdam obiciendum et dandum bubus lupinum et lactariis medica et cytisum; praeterea quod ante admissuram diebus triginta arietibus ac tauris datur plus cibi, ut vires habeant, feminis bubus demitur, quod macescentes melius concipere dicuntur.
One must also consider the preferable method of pasturing each species'by which I do not mean merely that a horse or an ox is content with hay, while swine will have none of it and seek mast, but that barley and beans should be fed at intervals to some of them, and that lupines should be fed to oxen, and alfalfa and clover to milch cows; and besides that for thirty days before mating more food should be given rams and bulls to increase their vigour, and food should be lessened for the females, because it is claimed that they conceive more readily when they are thin.
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