Watching an animal eat and subsequently grow right before your eyes is one of the most fascinating things in life. Many of our livestock breeds including cattle sheep and goats digest their feed ...

Cows, along with sheep, goats, deer, antelope, bison, buffalo, moose, elk, and reindeer, are all ruminants. These are mammals ...

Cows are notorious for chewing their cud, but did you know this is actually a key part of their digestive process? This chewing of cud, also called “ruminating,” is one feature of an interesting and ...

Eating grass–sounds simple, right? But behind this everyday process lies a highly specialized system in many hoofed animals that is unique. Who would have thought that a cow or a deer needs four ...

What they want students to learn with the lab is how a rumen works compared to a simple stomach, such as in a human, and why a ruminant needs its complex digestive system to break down the cellular ...