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 ...

Because small ruminants (<15 kg) have a high ratio of metabolic rate to fermentation capacity, they are expected to select and require low-fiber, nutrient-dense concentrate diets. However, recent ...

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 ...

This process produces more efficient fiber digestion in ruminants than that in nonruminants of similar size. Rumination, however, is advantageous over only a limited range of body sizes. The lower ...

David Combs explains the importance of the digestibility of foraged plants for cattle. David Combs, Professor, Department of Dairy Science, UW-Madison, explains the importance of the fiber ...

THE utilization of nitrogenous compounds by ruminants is known to be affected by a number of factors peculiar to these animals. Among these, the formation and absorption of ammonia in the rumen have ...

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 ...

A lamb and ewe at the UC Davis Sheep Barn. Ruminants such as sheep, goats, cattle and deer are among the most successful and widespread groups of mammals. A new study of genomes of 44 wild and ...