Ruminant Digestive System
Two animals that are ruminants
What is cows, sheep, or goats?
The storage site for food and water
What is the crop?
how many compartments in the mono gastric stomach?
one
The process of getting food into the mouth
What is prehension?
What is a digestive disorder common in horses?
colic
What is rumination?
Produces fatty acids like B vitamins
What is the ceca?
What animals have monogastric systems?
Carnivores and omnivores/pigs, horses, rabbits
Mechanical reduction of particle size of food is accomplished in the mouth
What is mastication?
What is Excessive accumulation of gas in the reticulum/rumen and the inability to expel the gas
what is bloat?
The largest compartment of the ruminant stomach
What is the rumen?
The site of digestive and urinary waste
What is the cloaca?
What is the part of the stomach that connects to the small intestine?
Pyloric
action or process of swallowing
What is deglutition?
What is the ingestion of sharp metal that punctures the reticular wall?
What is Hardware Disease
What is the muscular tube that bypasses the rumen and goes directly into the abomasum
the esophageal groove
How long can a crop hold food?
12 hours
What is the part of the stomach where mucus secretion occurs first?
Cardiac
the Cell level utilization of nutrients
What is metabolism?
What is diarrhea that will primarily occur in young animals, especially pigs?
Scours
What is known as 'the Butcher's Bible'
What is present in saliva to start digestion?
Amylase
What is the name of the body of the stomach?
Fundic
Excretion
What is the body voiding material?
What is a disorder that happens in dairy cattle?
Displaced Abomasum