THE BASICS
This is the most important nutrient.
What is water.
This is an example of concentrates.
What is corn, oats,
This mineral is needed as prevention against anemia. However too much is toxic to sheep and goat kids.
What is copper.
This vitamin is made by the body by being outside in the sun.
What is vitamin D.
This the name of the bolus that the sheep and goat ruminate on?
What is cud.
There are 5 basic nutrient groups. Name at least 3.
What are protein, carbohydrates, fats, minerals and vitamins.
These are the two classes of feeds for sheep and goats.
What is roughages and concentrates.
This mineral is needed for bone health.
What is calcium.
What is vitamin E.
These are the 4 names of the sheep/goat stomach.
What is the rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum.
What is the nutrient that provides the most energy?
What is carbohydrates.
This is the term for foodstuffs that have been "pickled" rather than dried and stored.
What are silages
Soils in NY are deficient in this nutrient. The lack of it causes "white muscle disease."
What is selenium.
This vitamin is made in the rumen and is needed for blood clotting.
What is Vitamin K.
What is the abomasum.
This nutrient is responsible is the building blocks of cells.
What is protein.
Are Roughages HIGH or LOW in energy.
Name at least 4 minerals that sheep and goats need.
What are Calcium, Phosphorous, Salt (NaCl), Potassium, Iron and Copper, Iodine, Sulfur, Magnesium. Selenium, Trace Minerals
This vitamin prevents the goat from getting "polio".
What is vitamin B.
This is the process of eating done by sheep and goats.
What is rumination.
This is why goats are able to be more selective in their food selection than sheep.
Sheep do not have mobile upper lips.
This type of feed is low in fiber and high in either energy or protein. They often come from the seeds of a plant.
What are concentrates.
Too much phosphorus compared to calcium in the feed of male goats leads to this.
What is Urinary Calculi.
This vitamin is made from beta-carotene that the sheep/goat gets when eating green forage and is stored in the liver/fat for use later.
What is vitamin A.
This is the process that occurs in the reticulum.
What is fermentation.