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Cattle Diets and Nutrition
Domestic bovines don't eat just grass: the diet of a bovine is surprisingly complex and involved with the variety of feeds in the form of forage, grain and byproducts available. But in order to determine the diet of a bovine one must understand the nutritional aspect of the bovine as well--an aspect that has its complexities and variations as well. If you are looking to learn and ask questions about the diets and nutrition of cattle, you've come to the right place.
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Is a example of a secondary consumer a cow eating grass?
No- a cow is a primary consumer. Primary consumers are herbivores that convert plant biomass.
Why is it important to feed animals correctly?
It is important because if you do not feed them they will become malnourished and will get sick from not eating and could resort to eating one another in rare circumstances. They will eventually die if not fed correctly.
They have a large rumen that is capable of holding a lot more digesta than our stomachs are capable of.
Does the fact that cows have 5 stomachs affect the milk making process?
Cows do not have 5 stomachs. they have 1 stomach with 4 digestive compartments: The rumen holds up to 50 gallons of partially digested food. This is where cud comes from. Good bacteria in the rumen helps digest the cows food and provides protein for the cow. The reticulum is called the hardware stomach because if cows accidentally eat hardware (like a piece of fencing scrap), it will often lodge here causing no further damage. The omasum is sort of like a filter. The abomasum which is like our stomach. Source(s): http://www.aipl.arsusda.gov/kc/cowfacts.…
It all depends on the land base of Avorare, whether the soil there is suitable for growing crops or instead for raising livestock, and what climate the country is in, whether it is hot and dry, warm and humid, cool and humid or cold and dry. Ideally it should be a balancing act of BOTH crops and livestock not just one or the other. Yes the fact that more pounds of grain can feed more people than livestock and less land is used per acre of crop land to feed more people than crops, but humans are not herbivores: they need meat too. A balancing act of both crops and livestock can and should be achieved, where the cattle can be grazed on land that is not suitable for crops and grazed on stubble that crops were grown on previously to add to nutritional levels in the soil. Excess grain that is not needed to feed people (since grain will be grown annually or bi-annually, depending on what climate Avorare is in) can be used to fatten up livestock for slaughter.
What is the word ending in ate that describes what a cow does when it chews the cud?
You are probably searching for the word: Masticate. Cattle, and other ruminants, chew their cud, which is the food that has already been chewed once and then regurgitated to chew again, sometimes multiple times. Mastication breaks down the foods with the mechanical process of chewing to shred and smash, plus enzymatic action from saliva so that as much as possible of the nutrients held in the food is extracted for easier digestion in the stomach(s). This process of chewing and breaking down foods (in cattle, humans, etc.) is called "Mastication".
Fun science with mastication:
For an experiment you can do at home to see first hand how mastication and saliva break down foods into more usable forms for digestion, get a saltine cracker and chew it without swallowing for about one minute. You will notice that what once was a salty starchy flavor has turned into a sweet flavor and it gets sweeter the longer you chew it. That is because the enzymes and mastication process have broken down the carbohydrates (starches and sugars) in the cracker into glucose, a more digestible form of the carbohydrate. Glucose tastes sweet, it is surprising how sweet a cracker can get simply by chewing it.
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All herbivores eat every part of a leaf unless they cant take posion
What part of the cow do corn beef come from?
According to Wikipedia , Corned Beef has two meanings : 1. refers to a cut of beef ( usually brisket , but sometimes round or silverside ) cured or pickled in a seasoned brine . 2. refers to a tinned product generally found with canned goods on supermarket shelves . The "corn" in "Corned Beef" refers to the "corns" or grains of coarse salts used to cure it .
(Of a person or animal) Search widely for food or provisions: "gulls are equipped by nature to forage for food".
Anything that is trying to find in search for food or water, but mainly it's food.
Yes, it can kill you but it is not likely. If eaten it can make you extremely sick.
Is cow dung smell useful for body?
The smell?? I don't think so. But there are millions of uses for cow dung (bovine dung) and urine. Check out the site in the related links below.
How does the camel differ from other animals like cows goats etc. in food?
There really isn't much difference in terms of what camels eat (if that is what you are referring to) from cows and goats, because they can eat the same hay as a cow or goat or any other herbivore can. However, like goats and deer, camels are more of a browser than a grazer.
What energy transformations take place when cows graze in a meadow?
Chlorophyll converts the sun's energy within the grass so the grass can grow. The, cows convert the grass into energy by digesting the grass.
A pastoral farm is one that typically raises livestock (particularly sheep and goats, but will also include cattle as well) to graze on pasture for most of the year. In North America, such farms are called ranches. In the United Kingdom, European Union and New Zealand this is called pastoral farming.
Since cattle do not have a top row of incisors, they wrap their tongue around the grass stalks and pull the grass out (not by the roots) and eat it.
How long is an cows intestine?
How long is an cows intestine
It can be nearly four times the size of the human intestine.
In a cattle feedlot in KS how may cattle can be penned in one pen?
Feedlots mostly have yearling finisher cattle, so lets start with the space requirements for them, which is 125-200 ft2 per animal for most cattle. So if you have a 5000 ft2 feedlot pen, the most you could fill it is with 25 - 40 cattle. However most pens are larger than 5000 ft2, but this rule of thumb is what most managers go by.
However, if this same 5000 ft2 pen had mature cows instead, it would be 300 ft2 per cow. So that means that that pen could hold plus or minus 16 cows.
Now here we haven't taken into account the soil and climatic conditions, so these numbers may vary with these type of conditions. Also, the above area numbers are for the dirt lots, not for paved lots. If a particular area was paved, the area per animal is significantly reduced. Examples:
- Cows have 50-100 ft2 per cow. Thus a 5000 ft2 lot could hold 50-100 cows.
- Yearlings have 30-50 ft2 per animal. Thus a 5000 ft2 lot could hold around 100 to 165+ yearlings.
A cow will continuously eat until the first stomach compartment is full, it will then rest and regurgitate the food. They will do this by belching or regurgitating small boluses of undigested feedstuffs. This bolus will enter into the mouth for re chewing, then swallowed into the remaining stomachs. This process will repeat itself until the feed has been fully chewed and all four compartments have been filled.
