02/06/2025
Good info sempena musim korban nak mai ni…boleh la tengok2 4 jenis perut lembu ni😬
📑 Ruminants are amazing creatures, but what does being a ruminant mean? 🐄🐑🐐
Ruminants are ungulates (2-toed) animals that chew a regurgitated cud. In order to chew their cud, they must have a specific type of stomach -- a rumen.
💡Our domesticated ruminants have 1 stomach with 4 awesome compartments.
1️⃣ Rumen – The 1st chamber is the biggest and can be bigger than 30 gallons in a mature cow! 🐮 The rumen has a "shaggy" carpet feel/look with papillae that flow back and forth (think seaweed moving in the ocean). The rumen is filled with "bugs" 🦠 and has its own ecosystem of bacteria and yeast to break down forages 🌾.
2️⃣ Reticulum – This 2nd chamber is a smaller outcropping of the rumen and has "cups" like a honeycomb 🍯 pattern to catch the food for digestion.
3️⃣ Omasum – The 3rd part is a tight basketball 🏀 shaped compartment in adult cattle with many "pages" 📖 of a book. The food weaves back and forth, absorbing water 💧 and drying out the ingesta.
4️⃣ Abomasum – The 4th compartment is like our human stomach 🧍. The ingesta is rehydrated with acid 🧪 for the final digestion before the intestines.
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