Shadow Paints foaling/kidding Thread.Twitch COLT pics pg 477!!

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Cud is a portion of food that returns from a ruminant's stomach in the mouth to be chewed for the second time. More accurately, it is a bolus of semi-degraded food regurgitated from the reticulorumen of a ruminant. Cud is produced during the physical digestive process of rumination, or "chewing the cud".
 
Goats, sheep, cows all have multipul stomachs and they are not good at digesting their cellulose rich food, so they swallow their food mostly unchewed, then it enters one of their stomachs for some bacterial help with digestion and they basicaly push some food back up their throat so they can finish chewing it.
 
ahhhhhhhhhhhh thank you both for the help. see this is why I love BYC, very smart people here
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