Sheep Health and Nutrition

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Across
  1. 1. Needed for growth.
  2. 3. When rumninants cannot burp out the gas.
  3. 6. Where water is extracted and absorbed.
  4. 7. To chew the cud.
  5. 8. Infestation caused by maggots eating flesh.
  6. 9. Needed for energy.
  7. 12. The true stomach where chemical digestion occurs.
  8. 14. Needed for cell function.
Down
  1. 1. Microbes in the gut.
  2. 2. Animals with 4 stomachs.
  3. 4. Infestation of intestinal worms.
  4. 5. Long tube where further absorption of nutrients occurs.
  5. 6. Food travels through here from mouth to rumen.
  6. 7. Largest stomach where fermentation occurs.
  7. 10. Sorting stomach and fermentation chamber.
  8. 11. Weakness caused by low glucose levels in late pregnancy.
  9. 13. Produced in the rumen by anaerobic bacteria.