1. Ruminant Animals
11-12th Grade

2. Learning Tragets
8. I can identify the 4 parts of a Ruminant animals stomach. (Cow)
9. I can identify feeds that Ruminant animals eat.

3. Ruminant Animals They Have: 1 stomach 4 compartments
Have even amount of toes

4. Ruminant Animals
Cattle
Sheep
Goats
Deer
Camels
Giraffes
Antelope

5. Ruminant Feed Corn Hay Grass Soybean Hulls Cotton Seed Silage
Distillers Grain

6. Chewing Cud Eat for about 6hrs a day. Chew their Cud for 8 hrs a day.
Drink about 30 gallons of water a day.
Eat 100lbs of feed a day.

7. Cow Stomach

8. Rumen 1st division of the stomach. Largest of the 4 compartments.
Fermentation takes place.
Holds 50 Gallon of digested food.

9. Reticulum 2nd of the 4 compartments Hardware compartment of stomach.
Collectes any metal objects the animal may eat.

10. Omasum
3rd of the 4 compartments.
Smallest of the compartments.

11. Abomasum
4th compartment of the stomach.
Digestion takes place here.

12. Ruminant Stomach

13. Fistulated Cow Facts
1st began because a man had a wound that would not heal. 1822
1st Fistulated cow was in 1833.
Most usually tested on college farms or feed test stations.

14. Fistulated Cow
Cannula: Plastic device that is installed into the side of the cow.

15. Purpose of Fistulated Cow
Observe how fast feed is digested.
Easy access to various organs.

16. Purpose of Fistulated Cow
Weigh feed as it is being digested.
Test various kinds of feed .

17. Purpose of Fistulated Cow
Check quality of feed digestion.

18. Results of Feed Study