Digestive System

2. - practice of eating plants as the main part of their diet
6. - feed containing less than 18% crude fiber when dry, grains and protein supplements are concentrates.
8. animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
9. - organic compound composed of carbon hydrogen and oxygen that is solid at body temperature; fats contain more carbon and hydrogen than do carbohydrates and are mainly glyceryl estes if certain acids that are soluble in ether but not in water.
11. an organic compound needed in small amounts for nutrition
14. inorganic substances needed in small amounts for proper nutrition
17. The third compartment of the ruminant stomach
19. fact or quality of being acceptable or agreeable to the taste
20. something that completes or enhances something else when added to it.
21. the second compartment of ruminant stomach

1. - complex carbohydrates such as cellulose and lignin
3. Ration - federal allowance for an animal during a 24 hour period that has all the nutrients the animal needs in the right proportions and amounts
4. - The fourth compartment, or true stomach, of the ruminant animal
5. the organ in the digestive system that receives the feed and adds chemicals that help in the digestion process.
7. a feed containing more than 18% crude fiber when dry,examples:hay,silage, and pasture
10. - an animal that feeds on flesh
12. - organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
13. an organic compound made up of amino acids and containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen
15. the type of amount of food and drink habitually ingested by an animal or a person ration without reference to a specific time period.
16. the first and largest compartment of the ruminant's stomach
18. handout is a supplement to the official manual