| Visit the Microbe Zoo for pictures and information about spirochetes and other bacteria which live in the cow rumen. |
| When calves are fed milk it is funnelled through the oesophageal groove to the true stomach, bypassing the rumen. |
| Energy from the grain apparently helps complete the conversion of nitrate to bacterial protein in the rumen. |
| Enhancing Ca absorption via paracellular absorption would require a high concentration of soluble Ca in the rumen, small intestine, or both. |
| Premium quality maize and barley is kibbled to optimise digestibility and increase the rumen utilisation rate. |
| As they chew the cud, rumen development is encouraged and this promotes a lean weanling with a large frame to send to grass. |
