The passage in an animals body through which food passes from mouth to anus.

Constructive process by which simple substances are converted by living cells into compounds that are more complex.

In four-legged animals, toward the head; the opposite of posterior.

Any feed high in energy (usually grain); sometimes used with reference to other nutrients, such as protein concentrate

A small wad of regurgitated feed in a ruminants mouth, which is rechewed and swallowed

The breaking down of food into simple substances that are more readlily aviaalbe to the body use

The mouth, esophagus, and digestive organs through which food passes

A catalyst that stimulates or speeds up checmical reactions

Harvested Crops or crop by-products used to feed animals

Harvested crops or animal products for human consumption

The chemical changes that take place in the living plant and animal cells where one compound/molecule is converted to another

Simple stomached animals (example: pigs, dogs)

Hind or Rear

Any food or feed high in fiber and low in digestible nutrients such as many fruits and vegetables, straw, and low-quality vegetation, hay, haylage, and silage. High-quality grass-legume pasturage and highprotein hay are more properly known as forage.

Animal with a four-chambered stomach, consumes large quantities of roughages

molecules used to build proteins

a large molecule that is considered a complex carbohydrate

a simple carbohydrate that is broken down by the body for quick energy

a complex carbohydrate that is not digestible by monogastrics, but aids in digestion

The type and amount of food/drink ingested by a person or an animal on a regular basis

A daily allowance for livestock or fowl feed; mixed to contain suitable nutrients required to promote normal development, maintenance, lactation, gestation.

A feed or feed mixture that is relatively richer in a specific nutrient than the basic feed ingredients in a ration to which it is added.

An insufficiency in reference to amount, volume, proportion; a lack; a state of incompleteness

One or a mixture of the substances that form the nutrients; namely, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water.

That portion of the feed for animals that is secured largely from the leaves and stalks of plants, such as the grasses and legumes used as hays.

A small, hard seed, esp. the seed of a food plant such as wheat, corn, rye, oats, rice, or millet.

Any leafy plant material, usually clover, fine-stemmed grasses and sedges, alfalfa, and other legumes, that has been cut and dried principally for livestock feeding.

A substance that favorably affects the nutritive processes of the body; a food. In stock feeding, any feed constituent or group of feed constituents of the same general composition that aids in support of life, like water, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, and vitamins.

A crop that has been preserved in moist, succulent condition by partial fermentation in a tight container above or below the ground. The chief crops stored this way are corn, sorghum, and various legumes and grasses. The main use of silage is in cattle feeding.

An organic substance that performs specific and necessary functions in relatively small concentrations in an organism.

An inorganic chemical compound or element

H2O; hydrogen oxide; although the liquid may contain associated molecules. The most valuable natural resource and the most limiting factor in crop production.

The process of providing or obtaining the necessary nutrients for health and growth

Animal with a digestive tract that can digest large amounts of roughages, but does not have a four-chambered stomach

The process of expelling waste from the body

A mixed feed that contains all feedstuffs consumed by the animal