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Digestive System

The document discusses the different types of digestive systems in animals, including monogastric systems found in pigs, dogs, and chickens, which have a single-compartment stomach, and ruminant systems found in cattle and sheep, which have a four-compartment stomach that allows them to digest cellulose with the help of microorganisms. It describes the important organs in each system, including the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine in monogastrics, and the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum in ruminants. The document explains how food moves through each type

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Digestive System

The document discusses the different types of digestive systems in animals, including monogastric systems found in pigs, dogs, and chickens, which have a single-compartment stomach, and ruminant systems found in cattle and sheep, which have a four-compartment stomach that allows them to digest cellulose with the help of microorganisms. It describes the important organs in each system, including the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine in monogastrics, and the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum in ruminants. The document explains how food moves through each type

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Animal Digestive Systems

Ag Science
Mr. Dieckhoff
Objectives
Know the different types of digestive
systems of livestock, small animals, and
birds.
What organs are important for food
digestion?
Describe how food moves through the
digestive system of various animals.
Different Types of Digestive
Systems
Monogastric
Pigs, dogs, cats, horses
Avian (Chicken, turkey)
Ruminant
Cattle, sheep, deer
Monogastric
Have only one
compartment in their
stomach
Digests grains easily
using amylase
starting in the mouth
Does not digest
forages & fibers
easily (unless have
enlarged Cecum)
Monogastric Digestive Tract

Test
What do each of these organs do….
Mouth – must chew food very well
Esophagus – Transports food to
stomach using paralysis
Stomach (1 compartment) –
secretes hydrochloric acid to break
down nutrients, pepsin to break
down proteins, renin to break
down milk
What do each of these organs do….
Small Intestine – further breaks
down nutrients and absorbs
nutrients into blood stream
Duodenum – place where bile (from
gall bladder) mixes with fats
Jejunum – (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHulRDk__ko)
Cecum – Digests fibrous material
Large Intestine – water
absorption & feces formation
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=8lqk7igz9L4
       Type of monogastric –
but many new organs
       Crop – part of the
Avian
esophagus – stores and
moistens food
       Proventriculus – similar
to the stomach in
monogastric animals.
Provides digestive secretions
       Gizzard – located after
the proventriculus, very
muscular, used to grind food
Ruminant
four distinct compartments in its stomach,
swallows unchewed, regurgitates it, chews it
and reswallows it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPCaalSzEE0

microorganisms break down cellulose


Ruminant Digestive Tract
STOMACH COMPARTMENTS
Rumen (80% of capacity)
Reticulum (5% of capacity)
Omasum (7% of capacity)
Abomasum (8% of capacity)
Compartment 1:Rumen
Large fermentation vat
Microorganisms break down
cellulose
Bacteria, protozoa
Creates lost of gases
(methane)
Ruminants have to be able to
eructate (belch)
Roughages are reduced in
size

Hole in stomach video


Rumen Feed Storage
Gas
Today’s Hay

Yesterday’s Feed
The rumen does not develop in the young
until they are weaned and begin to eat solid
feed
Compartment 2: Reticulum
Collects objects that
shouldn’t be in the
digestive system.
Nails
Screws
Baling wire
Magnets are placed
into many dairy
animals reticulum.
Compartment 3: Omasum
Works to remove
water from the food

Absorbs fatty acids


Compartment 4: Abomasum
(True Stomach)
Glandular Stomach (like yours)
Secretes digestive juices.
Breaks down food stuff further for
absorption.
Absorbs some nutrients.
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=SVNNJf_28KE
Order that food moves.
Rumen
Reticulum
Omasum
Abomasum

Hint to remember
Alphabetically back-
words.
Ru Re O A
Review Questions
1. What are the two primary types of
digestive systems and give two examples of
animals that have each type? 
2. What organs are in the digestive tract of
Monogastrics?
3. What are the four compartments of a
ruminant digestive stomach?

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