| A | B |
|---|
| Carbohydates | The main energy nutrient in animal ration |
| Chyme | The name of feed leaves the stomach--it is acid, semi fluid gray, pulpy mass |
| Digestion | The process of breakin feed down into simple substance that can be absorbed |
| Rumen | In baby calves this organ will not develop as long as the calf drinks milk and sucks from it mother |
| Self fed | Animal that is given free access to all the feed it will eat |
| Nonruminants | Type of animal that uses acid in their simple stomach |
| Liver | Largest glad in the body, located along the small intestine |
| Reticulum | Honeycomb or hardware pouch; overflow of rumen |
| Rumen | Larges part of the ruminant system |
| Absorption | Taking in the digestive parts of the feed into the bloodstream |
| Crop | Chicken digestion organ that is used as storage |
| Gizzard | Chicken digestion organ that is used to crush and grind feed |
| Protein | tankage, meat scraps, bonemeal is a source of this nutrient |
| Omasum | Many plies, squeeze water out of feed |
| Cecum | Contains bacteria in horses; connects small and large intestine |
| Fiber | Most difficult to digest in the ration |
| Small Intestine | Long folded tube attached to the lower end of the stomach; absorption occurs in this |
| Abomasum | True Stomach in beef cattle |
| Rennin | Enzyme that is found in stomach, curdles casein, milk protein |
| Metabolism | Sum of the processes, chemical and physical of the nutrients by the cells after they are absorbed from digestion |
| Villi | Small structures found in small intestine to trap the feed stuff. |
| Rumination | Process where feed is forced back into the cattle mouth, to rechew the feed. |
| Large Intestine | Primary function would include waste removal |
| Pancreatic amylase | Enzymes that changes in the feed into maltose, produce by the pancrease |
| Ruminants | Animals with multi-stomachs and can digest fiber |
| Enzymes | Organic catalysts which speeds up digestive process |
| Concentrates | Types of feed classification that includes grains, like oats, soybeans |
| Roughages | Type of feed classification that includes hay and grass hay. |
| Cloaca | A cavity at the end of the digestive tract for the release of both excretory and genital products |
| Caeca | A pair of tubes that allow fermentation of undigested food to take place |
