Livestock Digestion

Located at the end of the esophagus

• rumen

• cardia

• small intestine

• rectum

Holds foreign material objects that animals swallow

• reticulum

• rumen

• omasum

• abomasum

True stomach of the ruminant

• reticulum

• rumen

• omasum

• abomasum

Animals that have a stomach that is divided into compartments.

• non-ruminant

• ruminant

Allows milk to travel directly from the mouth to the abomasum in young ruminant animals such as calves and lambs.

• cardia

• reticular groove

• rumen

• cecum

Sector of the stomach where fermentation occurs

• cardia

• reticular groove

• rumen

• cecum

Digestive disorder that is fatal in horses

• cardia

• colic

• rumen

• cecum

Process of chewing

• bolus

• colic

• mastication

• cecum

Area of microbial digestion, also known as a blind sac.

• bolus

• colic

• mastication

• cecum

Animal that consumes only plants.

• herbivore

• omnivore

• carnivore