Ruminant Crossword
Across
- 2. Ration Feed allowance for an animal during a 24-hour period that has all the nutrients the animal needs in the right proportions and amounts.
- 5. Good tasting
- 8. The organ in the digestive system that receives the feed and adds chemical that help in the digestive process.
- 9. An organic compound needed in small amounts for nutrition.
- 10. A feed containing more then 18 percent crude fiber when dry; examples: hay, silage, and pasture.
- 12. An animal dietary supplement is a substance for oral consumption by horses, whether in or on feed offered separately.
- 13. The first and largest compartment of the ruminant stomach.
- 16. An organic compound made up of amino acids and containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen.
- 18. Organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen.
- 19. Inorganic substance needed in small amounts for proper nutrition.
- 20. Feed contains less than 18 percent crude fiber when dry; grains and protein supplements are concentrates.
Down
- 1. The second compartment of the ruminant stomach
- 3. Organic compound composed of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen that is solid at body temperature; fats contain more carbon and hydrogen that do carbohydrates and are mainly glyceryl esters of certain acids that are soluble in ether but not water.
- 4. The practice of eating plants as the main part of their diet.
- 6. The fourth compartment, or true stomach, of the ruminant animal.
- 7. The third compartment of the ruminant stomach.
- 11. An omnivore is an animal that regularly consumes significant quantities of both plant and animal matter.
- 14. The type and amounts of food and drink habitually ingested by a person or an animal; Ration without reference to a specific time period.
- 15. Complex carbohydrates such as cellulose and lignin.
- 17. An animal that feeds on flesh.