HANDOUT Topic # 3041 NUTRIENTS AND NUTRITION Anna Blight Topic Definitions A __________________ is any feed constituent that functions in the support of life. Most animal feeds are classified as _______________ and ___________________. ____________________ consist of cereal grains, oil meals, molasses, and dried milk products. They are high in _____________, low in ____________, and highly ________________. ___________________ include corn, wheat, barley, oats, and milo. Examples of ________________ are soybean meal, linseed meal, and cottonseed meal. ________________ include legume hays, grass hays, and straws. Other forms of roughage are silage, stovers, soilage, and grazed forages. They are _______ ______________ than concentrates. __________________ consist of dried corn, cane or milo stalks and leaves with the grain portion removed. _________________ is cut green feeds. The six basic classes of nutrients are ___________, _________________, __________, _______________, _______________, and __________________. Nutrients are made up of _____ ________ _____ of the more than 100 known ____________ ______________. These 20 elements and their chemical symbols are: calcium (___), carbon (___), chlorine (___), cobalt (___), copper (___), fluorine (___), hydrogen (___), iodine (___), iron (___), magnesium (___), manganese (___), molybdenum (___). nitrogen (___), oxygen (___). phosphorus (___), potassium (___), selenium (___), sodium (___), sulfur (___), and zinc (___).