Digestive Tract
A place were anaerobic fermentation occurs prior to the intestines.
What is the rumen?
The most common limiting amino acid in swine and poultry
What is lysine?
Chopping, pelleting and adding concentrate.
How do you increase consumption of poor quality forages?
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What is vitamin C deficiency?
Reduces weaning stress and delivers feed additives to pre-weaned animals.
What is creep feeding?
These products come from the same animal from one place, amino acids glucose, fatty acids and water.
What are the end products of avian digestion?
Nutrient required for normal vision in the cat.
What is taurine?
Always required, not necessarily in the form of whole protein.
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What is Pantothenic Acid deficiency?
Stored as adipose tissue if not utilized immediately.
What are carbohydrates?
A part of the small intestine lining that increases the ability to absorb nutrients.
What are intestinal villi?
Lack of maternal transfer of nutrients
What is a pig placenta?
An inexpensive source of nitrogen that can only be utilized by ruminants or animals in utero
What is NPN?
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What is Vitamin K deficiency?
The stage of production that requires the most nutrients.
A dental adaption that proves this animal is a carnivore.
What are shearing teeth?
The result of oxidation and when deficient may cause anemia.
ferric state of iron
The portion of plants that is digested by enzymes produced by microbes
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What is Vitamin E Deficiency
Prepubertal stage that will ultimately determine how well a cow will produce milk.
Volitile fatty acids, methane, carbon dioxide and heat
What are the end products of carbohydrate digestion?
Released by the thyroid gland in response to circumstances such as high milk production.
What is calcitonin?
Necessary to stop fermentation of silage
What is lactic acid?
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What is Thiamin deficiency?
Complication with feeding large amounts of concentrate without transition.