Agricultural Science·Livestock husbandry · NSSCO 4.1.1

Digestive & reproductive systems of farm animals

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Why do cattle keep chewing long after the grass is swallowed, while a pig does not? The answer is inside their stomachs. In this lesson we open up our farm animals — with clear labelled pictures, not a knife — and name every part of two systems: how a ruminant (cattle) and a non-ruminant (pig) are built for digesting food, and how a cow and a bull are built for making young. Today is all about structure: the names and the places of the parts.

What you'll learn in this lesson

By the end you should be able to (NSSCO Agricultural Science 4.1.1):

  • Describe the structure of the digestive system of a named ruminant and a named non-ruminant (not poultry)
  • Describe the structure of the reproductive system of a named farm animal (not poultry)
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Digestive & reproductive systems of farm animals · NSSCO Agricultural Science · namstudy