Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/563/en

fore-stomach system, they have only a composite, single-chambered, relatively small stomach. To this connects the long small intestine, which breaks down the readily digestible components of the fodder. The harder-to-digest raw fibre is broken down bacterially only in the enormously developed caecal sac and then in the colon and rectum. This mode of digestion corresponds to their feeding behaviour. Horses eat twice as long as cows — namely sixteen hours a day. They are day-and-night animals. With their good eyesight even in the dark, they find their fodder with sure step by night as well. Horses and the so frugal donkey are excellently suited, after pasture rotation, to graze back over the plants the cows have left untouched.