Answer:
Cattle, sheep, and goats are all examples of ruminant livestock. Ruminants are hoofed animals with a unique digestive mechanism that enables them to extract more energy from fibrous plant matter than other herbivores. Unlike monogastric animals such as pigs and poultry, ruminants have a digestive system intended to ferment feedstuffs and give the animal precursors for energy. By knowing how the ruminant's digestive system works, livestock producers can better care for and feed ruminant animals.
Ruminant digestive systems are specially adapted to enable ruminant animals such as cattle to use high roughage feedstuffs, especially forages, effectively. The mouth, tongue, salivary glands (which produce saliva to buffer the rumen's pH), esophagus, four-compartment stomach (rumen, reticulum, omasum, and abomasum), pancreas, gall bladder, small intestine (duodenum, jejunum, and ileum), and large intestine comprise the anatomy of the ruminant digestive system (cecum, colon, and rectum).
