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cud the bolus regurgitated by ruminants. It contains fiber, other food particles, rumen liquor and flora. cud chewing after regurgitation, chewing on the remains of the regurgitus. cud dropping a usually temporary condition in the cow in which each regurgitated bolus is rejected to the exterior. There is no other abnormality. losing the cud the cow that has 'lost her cud' is not ruminating. This is a nonspecific sign of illness. cud transfer a therapeutic practice of collecting fresh ruminal contents, from the mouth of a ruminating cow or by stomach tube from a rumen or from a freshly killed normal animal, and administering an infusion of it to a cow with ruminal stasis. The objective is to repopulate the recipient rumen with viable, normal ruminal flora. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| coli bacteria originate in the digestive systems of cud-chewing animals and frequently contaminate human foods - whether meats, milk products, fresh produce or unpasteurized juices. emission factor, one cud-chewing Holstein would be burping up more ozone-creating emissions than 85 Ford Tauruses cruising by Tulare on California Hwy. We could referendum the antidiscrimination bill back in; proclaim a statewide Day of Public Atonement for Poor Citizenship, which ought to entail humiliating, slightly painful rituals for each Mainer (especially our bomb-happy secretary of defense); and, of course, abolish Christianity, at least in its fundamentalist, ovine, cud-chewing variety. |
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