Watching an animal eat and subsequently grow right before your eyes is one of the most fascinating things in life. Many of our livestock breeds including cattle sheep and goats digest their feed ...

I recently learned that digestion is a very deliberate process for ruminant animals. Whenever such an animal, like a cow, eats grass, the food gets to the first compartment (the rumen) of its 4-tier ...

What they want students to learn with the lab is how a rumen works compared to a simple stomach, such as in a human, and why a ruminant needs its complex digestive system to break down the cellular ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Because small ruminants (<15 kg) have a high ratio of metabolic rate to fermentation capacity, they are expected to select and require ...

Eating grass–sounds simple, right? But behind this everyday process lies a highly specialized system in many hoofed animals that is unique. Who would have thought that a cow or a deer needs four ...

On a recent chilly Summit County evening, my wife and I sat down to a dinner of hot soup, salad and bread. It was a healthy dinner for omnivores like ourselves, but one that required agriculture and ...

Scientists have shown it is possible to breed cattle to reduce their methane emissions. The researchers showed that the genetics of an individual cow strongly influenced the make-up of the ...

The digestive system is fundamentally the process which is responsible for how animals obtain nutrition from food. It normally involves a way for the food to get in the animal, a way for the waste ...

The discovery that a bacterial species in the Australian Tammar wallaby gut is responsible for keeping the animal's methane emissions relatively low suggests a potential new strategy may exist to try ...

A BIG thank you to Roy Waitley, Tylar Marshal, Bryan Torres (Poncho), and Tatia Banks for helping us experience real life scenarios with animals. The Animal Science Class, after studying in class the ...