A type of cereal, a home for bees, and may also be called a paunch (pronounced "pon-ch", like a pauncho sweatshirt, without the 'o').
What is reticulum?
100
Ruminant animals are like chemists in their ability to break down feedstuff in this stomach chamber.
What is the rumen?
100
Ruminant animals eat quickly, making this process necessary.
What is ruminating/chewing cud?
100
Sits in the middle of the chambers, is also known as the bible, fardel, manyplies, and the psalterium (sal-teery-um).
What is Omasum?
100
The ruminant animals has an arched back, may not want to get up and/or lay down, and may grunt when walking.
What is hardware disease?
200
Companionship, working the land, food, clothing, and shelter are reasons why these animals were of the first domesticated.
What is the ruminant animal?
200
Sheep, goats, and cows are examples of ruminant animals, unlike humans and pigs, which have type of digestive system.
What is mongastric?
200
Absorbs water and some nutrients, looks like a book, and is third in order in the travel of feedstuff.
What is Omasum?
200
Is like it's own little universe, alive with microbes, fungi, and protozoa (pro-toe-zoe-uh).
What is the rumen?
200
The animal's breath smells like nail polish remover, she has little appetite, and if she's a milk cow, she's not producing as much milk as she should.
What is ketosis (key-toe-sis)?
300
Provides up to 75% of energy needs for the ruminant animal and they are synthesized in this compartment.
What are Volatile Fatty Acids (VFAs) in the rumen?
300
This digestive system is unable to utilize plant sources like ruminant animals are, lending to one of the reasons for domestication of the ruminant animal. (These animals are domesticated too. Domestication just happened after ruminant animals).
What is the monogastric digestive system?
300
Gastric fluids, hydrochloric acid, and digestive enzymes break plant matter in this compartment.
What is abomasum?
300
Pear-shaped fourth chamber.
What is abomasum? (I remember it's the true stomach in a ruminant from the "ab" part...).
300
Feeding too many antibiotics will kill these.
What are microbes?
400
This compartment sends feedstuff to the small intestine.
What is the abomasum?
400
These three fat-soluble vitamins are not synthesized by the ruminant animals and are therefore acquired through feedstuff and through sunlight.
What are Vitamins A, D, and E?
400
Since cows cannot eat a tasty hamburger to get their protein, rumen microbes are one of two sources to provide this necessary building block (amino acid) for the ruminant animal as they act to break down feedstuffs consumed by the animal.
What is Nitrogen?
400
_____ is the first compartment, ______ is the second compartment, ______ is the third compartment, and ______ is the final and fourth compartment.
What is the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum?
400
Too much clover and alfalfa can cause this.
What is bloat?
500
These two compartments are often referred to as one, and are therefore also called the _________.
What is the reticulorumen?
500
These 3 chambers are edible and sold as tripe in grocery stores. Hint: it is the first 3 chambers.
What is the reticulum, omasum, and the rumen?
Reticulum: honeycomb tripe
Omasum: bookend tripe
Rumen: smooth tripe
500
When these little guys die, they are passed on to the true stomach, where they provide additional protein needs for the ruminant animal.
What are microbes?
500
Without this compartment, the ruminant animal would have no filter.
What is the reticulum?
500
This enzyme found in the ruminant stomach helps to break down cellulose.