Carbs- 1 Flashcards
What is a carb from plants that is not digestible by mammalian enzymes?
Fiber
Carbs are ____ essential nutrients for dogs and cats
NOT
What animal is in a constant state of converting amino acids from protein to glucose?
Cats
What is the most energy efficient VFA for forestomach fermenters?
Propionate
What VFA is the building block for milk fat in forestomach fermenters?
Acetate
Microbial cellulose fast or slow for cellulose and hemicellulose?
Slow
Microbial cellulose fast or slow for starch and sugar?
Fast
What are compounds that alter the rumen micro floral population such that PROPIONATE production is favored?
Ionophores
What aids in the efficiency of conversion of feed energy into usable energy by the animal?
Ionophores
Ionophores are considered _________ because they suppress the growth of certain microbes in the forestomach
Antimicrobials
Ionophores are _______ in camelids and horses
Toxic
What do fruit and vegetables provide? 2 things
Fiber and carbs
What is propionate converted into in the ruminants liver?
Glucose
Glucose is converted to lactose in the udder- which aids in milk _______
Volume
What does an increase in propionate increase ?
Milk volume
