Farm Animal Foods
This dried grass is stored to feed animals.
What is Hay?
Humans have these many stomachs.
What is One?
Cows are called this type of animal.
What is Ruminant?
Animals need food to stay this.
What is Healthy or Alive?
True or False: Grass is harder to digest than most foods people eat.
What is True?
This food gives animals energy and is often yellow.
What is Corn?
A cow's stomach is divided into these many parts.
What is Four?
True or False: A ruminant chews it food only once.
What is False?
Food helps animals do this as they get older.
What is Grow?
How many eggs does the average chicken lay in a year?
What is about 250-300 eggs per year.
This food comes from cotton plants and gives animals fat and proteins.
What is Cottonseed?
How do animals turn the food they eat into energy?
Through digestion — food is broken down and converted into energy the body can use.
This farm animal is also a ruminant, and humans collect this animal's fiber for clothing materials.
What is a Sheep?
What nutrient do ALL farm animals need every single day to survive?
What is Water?
How much water does a dairy cow drink every day?
What is up to 50 gallons of water a day (amount to fill up a bathtub almost completely full)?
Cows eat this green plant as one of their main foods.
What is Grass?
Cows chew their food more than once. This is called chewing their what?
What is Cud?
This horned animal is also a ruminant and can climb well.
What is a Goat?
What kind of consumer is a cow?
What is a Herbivore?
What is one of the smartest animals on a farm?
What are pigs?
These foods help animals grow strong and are often small seeds like wheat or oats.
What are Grains?
Why is grass such an important food source on a farm?
It's renewable & packed with nutrients (CARBOHYDRATES).
Name one thing all ruminants eat.
What is Grass or Hay?
What are the three main nutrients animals need to stay healthy?
What are Carbohydrates (energy), proteins (growth/repair), and fats (energy storage).
Explain why cows are able to eat grass but humans are not.
Cows (and other farm animals) are ruminants and have a four-part stomach that helps them digest grass.