What Cattle Eat

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What Cattle Eat
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Information

• Cattle are herbivores meaning they only eat
  plants
• Cattle are Ruminants meaning they chew cud after
  regurgitating food from the rumen.
• Cattle have a four compartments stomach. Those
  four compartments are the rumen, reticulum,
  omasum, and abomasum.

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Roughage

• Hay
• Silage
• Grass

• Roughages are
• High in Fiber
• Low in Energy

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Grains

• Corn
• Oats
• Barley

• Grains are
• High in Energy
• Low in Fiber

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At all times

• Mineral
• Water