The rumen is the largest compartment, with a capacity of more than twenty gallons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

After being swallowed, food enters a large compartment called the rumen, which makes up about 80 percent of the stomach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deer Professor Karl V.] Reference

The rumen is the stomach that has always intrigued me most, even more for its inhabitants than for its internal landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Body of a Cow] Reference

      The rumen is the stomach that has always intrigued me most, even more for its inhabitants than for its internal landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Body of a Cow] Reference

Studies on the biochemical processes in the rumen.    From Wordnik.com.  [6 Nutrition] Reference

A donkey's stomach has only one gut; it has no rumen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

Take a look inside the rumen contents of elk number one.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

If you see these symptoms, pierce the rumen immediately.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

I reach deep into the doe, shoving her rumen and intestines aside.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Knead the left side of the stomach to force the gas out of the rumen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

To return the contents of the rumen to the mouth for further mastication.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 13] Reference

When voluntary intake is low, rumen dilution, or turnover rate, is also low.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

It is then carried back to the mouth, remasticated and returned to the rumen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

Between sixty and seventy per cent of the cellulose is digested in the rumen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

Nothing but clumps of hair and the rumen contents, eaten sometime last winter.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

He'd managed to get the rumen out, which is the most essential part of gutting.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

An abnormal accumulation of gas in the rumen of cattle, water buffaloes and goats.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 13] Reference

Effect of frequency on the production of VFA in the rumen by zebu cattle and buffalo.    From Wordnik.com.  [6 Nutrition] Reference

Digestive enzymes in fish stomach is similar to rennin which is found in the rumen of cattle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The bacteria can now be obtained from Australian scientists at CSIRO and used for rumen inoculation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 28] Reference

Showing the point where the wall of flank and rumen are punctured with trocar and cannula in "bloat".    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

Certain fungi can digest cellulose and lignin, as can the symbiotic bacteria inhabiting a cow's rumen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference

He had the heart and lungs out okay, and most the rumen, but was having trouble cutting the liver free.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

This lower digestibility causes the material the ruminant eats to remain in the rumen for a longer time.    From Wordnik.com.  [9: Domestic animals] Reference

As noted, the stomach consists of three functional compartments: the rumen, the reticulum, and the abomasum.    From Wordnik.com.  [26 Mouse Deer] Reference

The four compartments into which it is divided are the rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum or true stomach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The different forms of acute indigestion are bloating, overloading of the rumen and impaction of the omasum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

Effect of a sodium hydroxide treatment on the utilization of wheat straw and poplar wood by rumen microorganisms.    From Wordnik.com.  [3 Ethanol Production] Reference

This operation consists in opening the walls of the abdomen and rumen, and removing a part of the contents of the rumen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The result is that the animal not only is getting less from what it eats but it cannot eat more until the rumen empties.    From Wordnik.com.  [9: Domestic animals] Reference

The drinking of a large quantity of water, especially if cold, chills the wall of the rumen and interferes with its movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

The most important function of the rumen and omasum is the maceration of the fibrous substances, and the digestion of the cellulose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference

This technique has also been applied to wood residues, resulting in increased rumen digestibility for some woods but not for others.    From Wordnik.com.  [3 Ethanol Production] Reference

CAUSE: Hoven is caused by various kinds of food which produce indigestion or fermentation and resultant gases in the rumen or paunch.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Veterinarian] Reference

Small antelope are probably not as efficient as larger ruminants in digesting fiber: the retention time in the rumen may be too short.    From Wordnik.com.  [26 Mouse Deer] Reference

When cows and other ruminants digest their food, methane builds up in their rumen, the largest chamber of their four-chambered stomach.    From Wordnik.com.  [SCIENCE NEWS] Reference

  When he sliced open the rumen, I was surprised to see that the inner surface was covered with papillae, reminiscent of shag carpeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Body of a Cow] Reference

Fresh cow dung contains bacteria from the cow's rumen that is essential to the rapid decomposition of cellulose and other dry vegetation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference