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Whitetail Deer's Digestive System
By David Selman, Tracker-Outdoors.com, Thu Dec 8th

Whitetail Deer's Digestive System
By David Selman, Tracker-Outdoors.com, Thu Dec 8th

Deer are ruminant animals which means they have a four chamberedstomach similar to cattle. A fascinating characteristic aboutthe ruminant's stomach is that it allows the animal to gather alot of food at once and then chew and digest it later. The fourchambered stomach is needed to process the large amounts of lownutrient food that deer eat in order to get the most benefitpossible.Depending on the type and abundance of food, the deercan fill its stomach in about one or two hours of grazing. Whena deer eats, food is chewed just enough to swallow and store itin the first stomach chamber.  The deer has a four sectionstomach similar to that of cattle. The food goes into the firstchamber which acts as a fermentation vat. Most of the digestionoccurs in this area of the stomach. Deer depend on billions ofmicroorganisms that live in its stomach to break down thefibers, cellulose, and other basic plant components, and convertthem into materials that can be used by the deer's digestivesystem. Over 40 percent of a deer's energy is derived from theacids absorbed

through the walls of its first stomach. After thedeer has filled its first stomach, it will lie down to chew itscud, like cattle do. After chewing its cud to further break downthe food materials, the deer re-swallows the food. It thenpasses into the second chamber of the stomach. The food materialthen passes on to the third and forth stomach sections for moredigestion and absorption of nutrients. The food material thengoes through the intestines and everything that isn't digestedis passed as waste or "deer droppings".

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