ANSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Burping, Cecum, Mastication
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The way you pick up food and put it into your mouth (for humans they used fingers) Ruminants regurgitate their food, rechew it, and re-swallow. If they cannot burp, they bloat because too many gases accumulate. Require energy to make more muscle tissue in the body. Taking something simpler and making it into a muscle protein. Excrete whatever is not able to be digested. Sheep has a bigger and longer digestive tract then a wolf because they eat more indigestible food and have a longer digestion process that is dedicated to fermentation. Saliva = water, mucin, bicarbonate salts, enzymes (amylase) Liver - gallbladder (none in horse, rat) Main site of absorption in monogastrics is in the small intestine. Proteins digested into peptides and then amino acids. Starch digested into maltose and then glucose. Mouth, no upper incisors, molars up and down. Saliva - up to 12 gal day in cows, 2 gal in sheep.
