Chapter 9 Importance of Food Preassessment

An animal digestive system with four compartments to the stomach?

• Monogastric

• Pseudo-Ruminant

• Ruminant

• Cecum

A condition caused when the pH level of a ruminant animal remains low (acidic) for an extended period of time.

• Proventriculus

• Alkalosis

• Ketosis

• Acidosis

A storage area at the base of the esophagus in an avian digestive system.

• Cud

• Crop

• Cloaca

• Colic

The addition of digestive chemicals that break chemical bonds in foods at a molecular level.

• Enzymes

• Digestion

• Scours

• Metabolism

The nutrient responsible for building and repairing the cells in an animal's body.

• Carbohydrates

• Fat

• Protein

• Enzymes

The opening through which waste leaves the avian body; also the opening through which eggs are laid.

• Crop

• Cloaca

• cecum

• cud

Digestive system with one compartment, unable to process cellulose.

• Monogastric digestive system

• Polygastric digestive system

• Pseudoruminant

• Ruminant

Complex carbohydrates that require a lot of digestive effort to break down into absorbable nutrients.

• Ration

• Roughage

• Amino Acids

• Enzymes

The amount of feed that an animal consumes in a day.

• TDN

• Metabolism

• Ration

• Nutrition

A condition in livestock animals where excessive gases build up in the rumen.

• Alkalosis

• Acidosis

• Bloat

• Pneumonia