6 Basic Nutrients
These Vitamins are considered water soluble
What are Vitamins B and C?
This type of digestive system consists of a simple stomach where food is broken down due to highly acidic gastric juices.
What are monogastrics?
This is the true stomach compartment on a ruminant.
What is the abomasum?
This organic nutrient is required in order to provide the body with the ten essential amino acids.
What are Proteins?
This is another term for bringing food to one's mouth.
What is prehension?
DAILY TRIPLE--These three major minerals, inorganic nutrients, are often needed to be supplemented in animal rations.
What are calcium, sodium, and phosphorous?
This type of digestive system is a survival tool for ungulates to eat large amounts of forage and digest later in a four compartment stomach system.
What are ruminants?
This is the term used to describe chewing food.
What is the mastication?
Corn, oats, and wheat grains are examples of what kind of carbohydrates.
What are simple carbohydrates?
This muscle in the avian digestive system aids in breaking down or grinding food.
What is the gizzard?
This often overlooked mineral helps the body dissolve nutrients, control temperature, and enhance chemical reactions.
What is water?
This type of digestive system consists of a simple stomach with a large cecum that can take in large amounts of fiber.
What is a pseudoruminant?
This chamber collects lots of water in its many folds and absorbs nutrients.
What is the omasum?
This mineral is what makes all vitamins organic because all vitamins have this element.
What is carbon?
This is defined as a bulky feedstuff, high in fiber.
What is roughage?
When reading a feed tag label, one should look at this component to determine which feedstuff makes up the greatest portion of the feed.
What is the first ingredient?
Corn stalks, alfalfa stems, and brome grass are all high-lignin, high-cellulose feeds that are examples of this type of carbohydrate.
What are complex carbohydrates?
This large fermentation chamber is the first stage in breaking down forages.
What is the rumen?
This nutrient provides the most energy (2.25 times the energy) compared to other nutrients.
What is fat?
This part of the avian digestive tract holds food before entering the true stomach.
What is the crop?
DAILY TRIPLE--These three words, used in animal nutrition, are used to describe: a feed high in energy, a feed providing a specific nutrient, and a feed that contains ALL vegetative parts of the plant
What is concentrate, supplement, and forage?
Grass tetany, milk fever, bloat, colic, and displaced abomasum are all examples of diseases caused by this.
What are nutritional disorders?
Only the ruminant brings its food back to its mouth for further breakdown and digestion. This process is known as this.
What is regurgitation?
These nutrients are consider organic elements needed in small quantities to perform specific functions of the body.
What are vitamins?
This is the true stomach of the avian digestive system.
What is the proventriculus?