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 ...

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 ...

David Combs explains the importance of the digestibility of foraged plants for cattle. David Combs, Professor, Department of Dairy Science, UW-Madison, explains the importance of the fiber ...

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 ...

THE utilization of nitrogenous compounds by ruminants is known to be affected by a number of factors peculiar to these animals. Among these, the formation and absorption of ammonia in the rumen have ...

As a result of pioneering work of Hofmann (1973, 1989), nutritional ecologists classify ruminants into three feeding-type categories: browsers ("concentrate" feeders), grazers, and intermediate or ...