ANFS251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Short-Chain Fatty Acid, Cecum, Protein Quality

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Animal and Food Sciences
• Course: ANFS251
• Professor: Griffiths

Document Summary

Rumen for ruminants or cecum for non ruminants. Microbes in the rumen get the food first (beginning of digestive tract) Some microbes stay and some travel with the food. The microbes eat the food and the cow eats the microbes. No point in feeding cows high quality proteins because the microbes eat it and the cow doesn"t get it. Cow has to constantly burp the gas out. In nonruminants the fermentation camp is far down the digestive tract. The nutrients these microbes get are the leftovers. The indigestive fiber becomes useful because it travels all the way to the cecum and the microbes eat it. Unfortunately the vitamins made by the microbes just get pooped out. Needs to be absorbed in the small intestine. But it cannot go back up the. The volatile fatty acids can be absorbed in the digestive tract cecum. Can really affect the microbes in an animal based on what you feed them.