Large Animal Science - Ruminant Digestive System

4. a feed ingredient that has a high concentration of slowly degradable fiber
5. Partly digested food returned from the first stomach of ruminants to the mouth for further chewing.
6. The number of stomach chambers a ruminant digestive system has
13. Good bacteria in the digestive system that helps with digestion
14. The process of breaking down food
15. A disease cattle can get where gas accumulates in their stomach(typically the rumen chamber)
16. Also called the colon, is a wide but shorter tube that absorbs water from the digested food and helps push waste out of the body
18. Where digestion begins, food is broken down by teeth and saliva
19. The branch of science concerned with the bodily structure of humans, animals, and other living organisms, especially as revealed by dissection and the separation of parts:

1. a digestive process by which carbohydrates are broken down by microorganisms into simple molecules for absorption into the bloodstream of an animal
2. Long, narrow tube that performs most of the digestion
3. First stomach chamber that also helps with the regurgitation of cud
5. What we call each of the portions of the ruminant stomach
7. the second stomach of a ruminant, having a honeycomb-like structure, receiving food from the rumen and passing it to the omasum
8. The connecting point between the small intestine and large intestine
9. mammal that chews the cud regurgitated from its rumen. The ruminants comprise the cattle, sheep, antelopes, deer, giraffes, and their relatives
10. Fourth stomach chamber, performs the most digestion of food while in the stomach
11. grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for use as animal fodder, either for large grazing animals raised as livestock, such as cattle
12. Third stomach chamber, absorbs water and salts
17. bulky food such as grass or hay for horses and cattle; fodder.