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 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 ...

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 ...

With Indigenous Peoples’ Day Monday, October 13, we look at the herds of bison many tribes relied on that were nearly wiped ...

On a recent chilly Summit County evening, my wife and I sat down to a dinner of hot soup, salad and bread. It was a healthy dinner for omnivores like ourselves, but one that required agriculture and ...

Dear Dr. Bob: Please describe the cow's digestive system. -- B.M., St. Augustine. Response: The bovine digestive system, also known as the gastrointestinal tract, is amazing. Along with camels, deer, ...

The primary subjects of cattle and ruminant research are udder health as well as diseases associated with calves, the hoof and the digestive tract. The primary subjects of cattle and ruminant research ...

The discovery that a bacterial species in the Australian Tammar wallaby gut is responsible for keeping the animal's methane emissions relatively low suggests a potential new strategy may exist to try ...

Dear Daktari, I keep a few animals as my retirement project. I was a long distant truck driver and spent a better part of my life on the road. I am concerned about this chewing that my mature animals ...