Nutrition
Across
- 4. This diet contains ingredients consist of standardised ingredients processed to form major nutrient groups
- 7. Is a very common nutritional disease in domestic pets and other housed animals
- 10. Diet consists mainly of meat
- 12. Usually associated with excess Vitamin A in the diet
- 13. Generally omnivorous and will be opportunistic feeders in the wild
- 14. Herbivores possessing multiple digestive tract compartments for feed breakdown before feed reaches the “true” stomach
- 15. A parasite found in warm blooded animals
Down
- 1. Food intake is determined by gut-fill and not by total energy intake as with other animals
- 2. Some species specifically re-eat some faeces to improve digestion – rabbits, rodents
- 3. Primates and guinea pigs can not manufacture this vitamin
- 5. Maintenance food intake: 3 – 5 g/day (15% of bwt/day)
- 6. The chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life
- 8. Provide energy and can be converted into fat
- 9. Basal metabolic rate
- 11. Physical reduction of feed
- 14. Coprophagy provides microbial protein – prevents essential amino acid deficiencies