Nutrition Flashcards
1
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What are the factors affecting digestibilitly?
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- Food composition
- Chemical composition
- Cell wall versus cell contents
- Food processing
- Treatments
- Rolling, grinding, chopping, cooking, for example
- Starch digestion of many cereals affected by processing
- Horse: ground>rolled>whole
- Cow: rolled> ground > whole
- Alkali or urea treatment increases the digestibility of straw
- Treatments
- Level of feeding
- Properties of the animal consuming the feed
2
Q
Describe proximate analysis of food.
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3
Q
Describe carbohydrates in the plant and how their concentrations change.
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4
Q
Give the different types of grazing strategies and their characteristics
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5
Q
Give some characterisitics of cereal by-products.
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6
Q
What factors affect the metabolizable energy (ME) of feed?
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7
Q
Describe ruminant protein digestion
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