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- 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:
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- 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.