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Ruminant and Pseudo-Ruminant Digestive System

Ruminant animals like cattle, sheep, and goats have a four-compartment stomach consisting of the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. The rumen contains bacteria that partially break down food before it is swallowed, while the reticulum traps foreign objects. Digested food then moves to the omasum and abomasum for further digestion. Pseudo-ruminants like pigs, rabbits, and horses have multiple stomach compartments including a large cecum and intestine, but do not regurgitate food like true ruminants to extract maximum nutrients from plant materials.

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Ruminant and Pseudo-Ruminant Digestive System

Ruminant animals like cattle, sheep, and goats have a four-compartment stomach consisting of the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum. The rumen contains bacteria that partially break down food before it is swallowed, while the reticulum traps foreign objects. Digested food then moves to the omasum and abomasum for further digestion. Pseudo-ruminants like pigs, rabbits, and horses have multiple stomach compartments including a large cecum and intestine, but do not regurgitate food like true ruminants to extract maximum nutrients from plant materials.

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Ruminant and

Pseudo-ruminant
Digestive System
Ciara Labesig
Kenneth Collamar
What is a
ruminant animal?
 It is an animal that has 4 components in

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their stomach.
 It contains a rumen, reticulum, omasum
and abomasum.
 These are found in cattle, sheep, goats
and chickens
 These help brake down a lots of food
when the animals eat.

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How does it work?
 The first compartment of the stomach
is the rumen which has millions of
bacteria and microbes that helps in
the partial break down of foods. And

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since these animals do not chew well
their foods before swallowing, the
reticulum traps foreign materials,
such as wire, and nails. From the
reticulum, the digested cellulose is
swallowed into the omasum that
removes water and passes to
abomasum where it is digested by the
enzyme produced by the ruminant.
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What is a Pseudo-
ruminant animal?
This animals do not regurgitate
or chew the cud.

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These animals are still similar
to ruminant animals but don’t
get the most nutrients out of
leafy materials.
Pigs, rabbits and horses the
most known animals to be
pseudo- ruminant.
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Parts of pseudo-
ruminant.
 There is several parts of the
stomach.

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 There is large cecum and large
intestine.

How it works?
 Cecum helps digest plants in the
body and it absorbs water and salts
from undigested foods.
 Large intestines eliminate all
waste, undigested and unabsorbed
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material to leave the body.
Thank
You
Ciara Labesig
Kenneth Collamar

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