Today we shipped 5776 gallons of milk and had two new calves.
Monday, July 3, 2023
Polygastric
A few times in my previous posts I may have mentioned the word ruminant and I want to explain that. Cows are ruminants just like sheep and goats which means that they have a multi-chambered stomach. I have heard some people talk about cows as having several stomachs, however I like to think of a cow stomach similar to a heart in the way that it is one organ broken into several chambers. There are four recognizable compartments to a cows stomach and each has a unique name being the rumen, omasum, abomasum, and reticulum. Isn't that fascinating?
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