Anatomy
This location is where most of the starch digestion and absorption occurs in monogastric animals.
What is the small intestine?
This feedstuff is used as the primary source of energy in U.S. animal diets.
What is corn?
This is the most common source of non-protein nitrogen added to ruminant diets.
What is urea?
This is a common source of Ca used in animal diets.
What is limestone?
What process in feed manufacturing serves to decrease particle size of grain?
What is grinding?
What is the cecum?
This process is used to break down fiber so it can be used as energy.
What is fermentation?
What is another term for rumen undegradable protein?
What is bypass protein?
This is the typical ratio of Ca:P in hydroxyapatite, and subsequently, in most animal diets.
What is 2:1?
These types of feed additives are classified based on their ability to cure, treat, or prevent disease.
What are drugs?
This set of paired organs in birds is used for limited fiber fermentation.
What are ceca?
These three acids are produced during cecal or ruminal fermentation.
What are acetate, propionate, and butyrate?
This is the most common protein source fed in U.S. livestock diets.
What is soybean meal?
This disease, most commonly observed in cats or castrated male goats and sheep, is caused by precipitation of P during alkaline conditions.
What is urinary calculi?
This category of feed-based antibiotics can have its efficacy reversed, and is therefore more likely to cause antimicrobial resistance than its counterpart.
What are bacteriostatic antibiotics?
Which organ in poultry reduces particle size through its muscle contractions?
What is the ventriculus, or gizzard?
Equine diets are formulated using this energy system.
What is DE?
Bypass protein is digested in this location.
What is the duodenum?
Most P in grains is bound in an indigestible form unless this enzyme is added to the diet.
What is phytase?
These types non-therapeutic drugs are not medically important to human health but help shift rumen microbe populations to more efficiently use starch.
What are ionophores?
What is the reticulum?
This source of energy is used commonly in horses because it has a high level of pre-cecal digestibility.
Daily Double!
This is the difference between CP and MP.
This form of mineral is made when it is bound to a carbon-containing molecule, such as an amino acid.
What is a chelated (or organic) trace mineral?
Animal feed does not have a 'dietary supplements' category of food additives, so ingredients must either have an approved food additive petition or this type of status.