BEEF CATTLE: NUTRITION

• Simple stomached, one compartment stomach (swine).?

  Monograstic
• Digestive tract of poultry species?

  Modified Simple Stomach
• Characterized by enlarged cecum which allows for the microbial fermentation of plant materials?

  Herbivorous Monogastric
• Ruminants?


  Complex Stomach
• What are the four-compartment compound stomach of ruminants animals?

  RROA
• What does RROA means?

  R-rumen, R- reticulum, O-omasum and A-abomasum.
• It is the largest of the four compartments?

  Rumen
• In the rumen what is the muscular walls that secrete number enzymes that are cover by projections is called?

  Papillae
• What does APB means?

  A-acetate, P-propionate, B-butyrate
• Give at least 1 of the 3 major benefits of microbial fermentation in ruminants?
• It regulates the passage of feed from the rumen to the succeeding compartments; and a site of microbial fermentation.

  Reticulum(Hardware stomach)
• A round muscular organ which contains many muscular laminae; sometime called MANYPLIES


  Omasum
• It is the 'true stomach' of ruminants.

  Abomasum
• Production amounts to 30 to 50 quarts/hour and must be removed otherwise bloating occurs.

  Eructation(belching)
• Feed boluses (cud) are:?

  Regurgitated-Rechewing-Resilavation-Reswllowing
• The rumen is always contracting and moving 1-2 contraction/minute for healthy cows.?

  Motility of the rumen and reticulum
• As much as 50-80 quarts of saliva can be produced by salivary glands and added to the rumen each day.?

  Saliva production
• Simple and complex carbohydrates (fiber) are digested by rumen microbes and converted into ___?

  VFA's
• It is the cheapest and most abundant nutrient.

  Water