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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 (___).