Digestive Tract Basics
The three main livestock digestive systems
What is a monogastric, ruminant, and modified ruminant
Cattle, sheep, and goats
What is a single stomach animal
The first place food is stored in poultry
What is the crop
The primary function of the digestive system
Break down food and absorb nutrients
In order, the four compartments of the ruminant stomach
What is the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum
Major livestock species with a monogastric digestive system
What is pigs and poultry
The true stomach of poultry
What is the proventriculus
The main function of the liver
What is create and synthesize bile
The ruminant stomach compartment where bloat occurs
What is the rumen
The muscular organ which continually contracts to churn food particles to make sure they are mixed with all of the enzymes for chemical digestion to occur
What is the stomach
The organ in poultry that mechanically breaks down food into smaller particles
What is the gizzard
The three components of small intestine
What is the duodenum, ileum, and jejunum
The ruminant stomach compartment most similar to the monogastric stomach
What is the abomasum
The function of the large intestine
What is absorbing water and some nutrients
The organ in which waste is excreted from poultry
What is the cloaca
The process of chewing
Masticiation
The structure in young ruminants that allows milk to bypass the rumen straight to the abomasum
What is the esophageal groove
The process used to move food down the esophagus
What is peristalsis
The reason why poultry eat gravel
What is to further mechanically breakdown food