Ruminant Digestion - Long Branch Public Schools
Ruminant Digestion
Steps for digestion
Ruminants
Cattle, Sheep, Goats, Deer, Elk
Primarily Herbivores
60-75% of food fermented by microbes before exposed to gastric juices!!
Step 1: Chewing! (Mouth)
Consists of Tongue, Teeth, Saliva
Primary purpose is to breakdown ingesta
Teeth breakdown into smaller pieces Saliva uses a high pH to breakdown
Mouth is source of chewing and rechewing food
40,000 to 60,000 jaw movements a day!!
Step 2: Esophagus
2 ? to 3 feet long!
Uses muscle contractions to move food
Food should pass through 2 times before fully digested.
Opens into Reticulum and Rumen.
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