Silage

Silage is fermented, high-moisture forage to be fed to ruminants, cud-chewing animals like cattle and sheep. It is fermented and stored in a structure called a silo. Silage is most often made from grass crops, including corn (maize) or sorghum. Silage is made from the entire plant, not just the grain.

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Silage can also be made from many other field crops, and other names (oatlage for oats, haylage for alfalfa) are sometimes used when this is done. Sometimes a mixture is used, such as oats and peas.

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Forage: Forage is the herbaceous plant material (mainly grasses and legumes) eaten by grazing animals.The major forage types:...

Ruminant: A ruminant is any hooved animal that digests its food in two steps, first by eating the raw material and regurgitating a semi-digested form known as cud, then eating the cud, a process called ruminating. Ruminants include cows, goats, sheep, camels, llamas, giraffes, bison, buffalos, deer, wildebees...

Cud: :CUD is an acronym sometimes used to describe the genetic disorder Primary carnitine deficiency....