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Nutrient Glossary Flashcards

1
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The passage of liquid and digested (soluble) food across the gut wall

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Absorption

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2
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Free-choice; allowing animals to eat all they want

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Ad libitum

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3
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Refers to feeding feeds that contains their normal amount of moisture

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As fed

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4
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Any foods, including starches, sugars, cellulose, and gums, that are broken down to simple sugars through digestion

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Carbohydrates

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5
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A blind pouch at the junction of the small and large intestine

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Cecum

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6
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The large intestine from the end of the small intestine and beginning with the cecum to the anus

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Colin

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7
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A faster-than normal rate of gain after a period of restricted gain

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Compensatory gain

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An enclosure into which young can enter to obtain food but larger animals cannot enter. Also refers to the type of feed fed in this method. Creep feeding

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Creep

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Bonus of feed a ruminant animal regurgitates forget her chewing

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Cud

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10
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Feed ingredients or mixture of ingredients (including water) that is consumed by animals

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Diet

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The quality of being digestible. If a high percentage of a given food taken into the digestive tract is absorbed into the body, that food is said to have high digestibility.

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Digestibility

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12
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The reduction of particle size in feed becomes soluble and can pass across the gut wall into the vascular or lymph system

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Digestion

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13
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Feed after water (moisture) has been removed (100% dry)

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Dry matter DM

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14
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Ingredient (such as an antibiotic) added to a diet to perform a specific role (to improve gain or feed efficiency)

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Feed additive

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15
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A feed that is high in fiber and often low in digestible nutrients, and energy. Feeds such as hay, straw, silage, and pasture are examples.

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Forage

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16
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(1) the sum of chemical changes in the body, including the “building-up” and “breaking- down” process. (2) the transformation in which energy is made available for body use

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Metabolism

17
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Having only one stomach or only one compartment in the stomach.

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Monogastric

18
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Nitrogen in feeds from substances such as urea and amino acids, but not from performed proteins.

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Non protein nitrogen (NPN)

19
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Simple-stomach bot monogastric animal.

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Nonruminant

20
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One of the stomach components of ruminant animals. It has many folds.

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Omasum

21
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A substance that’ll made up of amino acids and that contains approximately 16% nitrogen (based on molecular weight)

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Protein

22
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The amount of total feed fed to animals over a 24-hour period

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Ration

23
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To cast up digested food to the mouth as is done by ruminants

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Regurgitate

24
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One of the stomach compartments of ruminant animals. It is lined with small compartment, giving a honeycomb appearance

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Reticulum

25
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A feed that is high in fiber and often low in digestible nutrients, and energy. Feeds such as hay, straw, silage, and pasture are examples.

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Roughage

26
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The larger fermentation pouch of the ruminant animal in which bacteria and Protozoa break down fibrous plant meatier all that is allowed by the animal; sometimes referred to as the pouch

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Rumen

27
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The regurgitation of i digested food and chewing it a second time, after which it is again swallowed.

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Rumination

28
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Forage, corn fodder, or sorghum preserved be fermentation that produces acids similar to the acids that are used to make pickled foods for human consumption.

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Silage

29
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A feed used with another feed to improve the nutrient balance of the total ration

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Supplement

30
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Includes the total amounts of digestible protein, nitrogen-free extract, fiber, and fat (multiplied by 2.25) all summed together

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Total digestible nutrients (TDN)

31
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An organic catalyst, or a component Theron, that facilitates specific and necessary functions

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Vitamin

32
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A group of fatty acids produced from microbial action in the rumen; examples are acetic, prop ionic, and butyric acids

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Volatile fatty acids (VFAs)

33
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The fourth stomach compartment of ruminant animals, corresponds to the true stomach of mono gastric animals

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Abomasum

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