Cattle Diets and Nutrition

There really is no such salt block or mineral mix. You can check with your veterinarian or those companies that make livestock salt blocks but it's highly likely you will not find such an ingredient in salt licks for cattle.

Methane gas from manure can be collected through a process called anaerobic digestion. In this process, manure is placed in a sealed tank where bacteria break down the organic matter and produce methane gas as a byproduct. The gas can then be captured and used as a renewable energy source for heating or generating electricity.

Cows are grazers, they eat grass and fertilize the grass with their waste. Grass grows from the cow's waste and the cycle starts over again. In turn, cows produce milk to feed their calves or to feed humans and are slaughtered by humans to provide meat.

Cows that consume grass produce more methane than cows on a high-concentrate or high-grain diet. This is because more acetate is produced than proprionate, which gets converted by the methanogens in the rumen to methane gas, which must be expelled through eructation or belching.

Mushrooms develop from spores that germinate into mycelium, a community of hyphae. When stipulations are right, the mycelium produces fruiting our bodies (mushrooms), which launch spores to begin the cycle again.

the cow breathes out the carbon on the plant and the plant then puts out oxygen in the cow and the cow then eats the plant

The amount of methane produced from a manure lagoon depends on factors such as the type and amount of manure, temperature, and management practices. On average, manure lagoons can emit several thousand to tens of thousands of cubic feet of methane per day.

Cellulose is the substance found in plants that cannot be digested by cows due to their lack of necessary enzymes. It is a complex carbohydrate that provides structure to plant cell walls but passes through the cow's digestive system without being broken down, making it a source of dietary fiber.

A wide, fairly flat expanse of treeless country is typically referred to as a plain or a prairie. These areas are characterized by their low relief, grassy vegetation, and lack of significant tree cover. They can be found in various regions around the world.

Methane cows produce methane gas through their digestive process, which is released into the atmosphere primarily through belching. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming and climate change. efforts to reduce methane emissions from livestock are being pursued to mitigate its environmental impact.

Most of the absorption of nutrients occurs in the small intestine. The inner surface of the small intestine is lined with finger-like projections called villi, which increase the surface area available for absorption. This is where the majority of nutrients from food are absorbed into the bloodstream.

The immediate loss of blood pressure to the brain would make your head lose consciousness within a second or two. Hypoxia sets in and you've got total brain death in 5 minutes. I hope you are not planning to experiment...

Some fungi do indeed grow in rings, but perfect may not be quite accurate!

Two species known for producing rings are Tricholoma Gambosum

(St. Georges Mushroom - also known as Calocybe Gambosum or Lyophyllum georgii)

and Marasmius Oreades (Fairy Ring Champignon).

Myths ascribe the rings to fairies, witches, the devil dragons etc. but:

"Fairy rings" (typically in three concentric rings) are caused by mycelium

of fungi growing from a central starting point. As the mycelium grows,

it produces changes in the organic matter of the soil. Ammonia is

liberated and produces nitrates or ammoniacal salts, manuring

the vegetation, & stimulating its growth.

As the mycelium increases, it fills the air spaces in the soil so that rain-

water has difficulty in percolating, at a time when the increased vegetation

is making greater demands on the available water. This causes localised

drought and the plants die, leaving a bare circle. The part behind dies

off and water can now panetrate the soil and the dead fungus becomes food

for the plants which invade the bare area and so on. Obviously the ring

widens year on year.

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Jeremy Browne, Hampshire, UK

Shaking Hands BBS, Fidonet 2:252/160

yall r stupid

The technological term for the process in which a cow regurgitates its cud and chews it is called "rumination." Rumination allows cows to further break down and digest their food by re-chewing it before fully swallowing it for final digestion.

sheep are grazers that eat mostly Grass (like Cows)

Goats are browsers that prefer to eat leaves, shrubs, flowers (like deer)

Sheep are also VERY copper sensitive and most can only hande no more than 10ppms of copper in their diet.

however,

Goats need copped in their diet, i think goats need around 30ppms of copper.

That really depends on how that steer is being finished, what breed it is and how much meat (determined by size of the carcass) you want. There are different breeds that tend to reach carcass maturity a lot later than others, and how that particular steer is finished also affects the rate of finish that steer undergoes. For most steers in the feedlot, they are kept until they are around 18 to 22 months of age upon which time they are slaughtered. On grass, they wouldn't be slaughtered until they reach around 24 to 30 months of age. Steers that are very late maturing (like Jerseys, Holsteins, and Highlands), may not be slaughtered until they're at least 30 months old.

Yes. Grasses are essentially leaves, cows will also eat leaves off of trees and shrubs and eat leaves (as well as the stems) from forbs like alfalfa.

NO. Cows are herbivores, not carnivores.

Spitting out cud is one of the first signs of disease in cattle. It is often indicative of abscesses or bad teeth. It is also associated with diseases such as tick fever and anaplasmosis.

This depends on what stage of pregnancy they are in and whether they are still suckling a calf or not.

Cows in their first trimester are often still nursing, and still need plenty of good quality feed to keep the milk flowing. However, during this last three months that the calf is on his dam, feed quality of the cow can be progressively decreased because the calf is relying less and less on his dam's milk than he is on other feed sources like the creep feed he's getting prior to being weaned, grass, and hay. When the calves and cows are weaned, the cows should be put on low-quality feed or pasture to help speed the drying up process.

Cows in their 2nd trimester (after weaning) can be put on lower quality feed or pasture during these next three months. During the winter, this is a good time to get them grazing stockpiled grass or swath graze, since the feed at this time is lower quality than what is needed for nursing a calf.

When cows start into their third trimester leading up to calving, feed quality should be gradually increased during these 3 months. If you are still feeding cows on swath grazed fields or stockpiled pastures, you may want to supplement them with better quality hay to help with their increasing nutritional demands during this time. This nutritional incline will continue to climb up until the new calf is around 2 to 3 months of age.

After the calf is born, and the cows are lactating, you will need to feed your cows 50% more than what they eat when not lactating.

It will take about 62 regurgitation and chewing rotations to fully chew their cud, food is fully digested at about 24 hours.

The smell, obviously.