CHIM CHIM CHIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok, there's still no videos on the cow's digestive system, even the pictures found seems to be only in a samll amount. well, at least i got one naming the four stomachs and got some info of its digestion process though its not very detailed....


As for the digestion process, here are the few steps

1. The cow tears and chews the food briefly then swallows. She'll eat for more than six hours a day.
2. The food passes into stomach #1 to soften. When the food passes into stomach #2, it mixes and softens more into what is called cud.
3. When Ms. Cow feels full, she burps up a small amount of cud to chew it again. She'll chew her cud for eight hours each day.
4. When the cow swallows again, the cud passes into stomachs #3 and #4 where it is digested further and nutrients are absorbed.
5. Digested food passes through her intestines where more nutrients are absorbed. Waste materials exit the cow as manure.

woah, and according to the source, a cow had to chew at a rate of 50 times per minute. In one day, she move her jaw more than 40,000 times!
Tough life it must have....

2/7/08
Wednesday