Digestive System: Cow Stomach Investigation Special | 6m 40s | CC Scientists can have an inside look at the digestive system by studying very special cows. Follow a University of Idaho scientist ...

If we are to feed cattle properly for optimum production, we need to understand their digestive system.

Portia is a cow at Tufts University living with a hole in her stomach in order to study the digestive system and help sick cows.

1. Seeds of 10 legumes and eight grasses found in tropical and subtropical pastures were placed directly into the rumens of cattle. Their survival and rate of passage through the digestive tract was ...

K-State experts emphasize the importance of fermentable carbohydrates, environmental exposure and milk intake in shaping the calf’s digestive system.

One of the best examples of this thrifty behaviour of Nature is the evolution of ruminants: animals such as deer, goats, cows and antelope have developed a unique digestive system, consisting of ...

When humans, or cows, eat plants, the plants are broken down into tiny molecular-sized fragments in the digestive system, so that the chemical factories in our body (or the cow) can make new fats ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine scientists have found a way to transform the gas created by the bovine digestive system into fuel, an innovation that could curb greenhouse gases that cause ...

Hofmann proposed that these feeding types result from evolutionary adaptations in the anatomy of the digestive system and that one consequence is shorter retention of the digesta in the rumen of ...