Download Worksheet: Basic animal feeding concepts

Worksheet: Basic animal feeding
concepts
Use one work to complete each of the following sentences—each of which contains an
important animal feeding concept. You can check your answers in the Feedback section at
the end of this worksheet.
1. _______________ are animals that normally eat only meat or invertebrates.
2. _______________ are animals that eat some meat, but also some plant materials.
3. _______________ are animals live entirely or almost entirely on plant materials.
4.
The 6 basic nutrients are protein, fat, _______________, water, minerals, vitamins.
5.
MER or Maintenance Energy Requirement this is the amount of _______________
used by a moderately active adult animal in a thermo-neutral environment.
6.
A feeding plan is a method to give _______________ to an animal that is worked out
in some detail prior to feeding the animal.
7.
Water is the most important nutrient required for life. The body is made up of
_______________ water.
8.
_______________ _______________ animals have a simple stomach and a relatively
short large intestine. They obtain their nutrients from eating meat and / or
invertebrates, which are relatively easy to digest.
9.
_______________ have four stomachs the rumen, the reticulum, the omasum and the
abomasum.
10. The main groups of feed include:

grains

_______________

fruit and vegetables

live feed
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1. Carnivores
2. Omnivores
3. Herbivores
4. carbohydrate
5. energy
6. food
7. mongastric
8. 60-70%
9. ruminants
10. roughage
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