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Field guideWhy ruminants chew cudCud chewing is one stage of a repeated digestive loop: forage enters the reticulorumen, selected fibrous material is regurgitated, remasticated, reinsalivated, and swallowed again, and particles eventually pass onward when their size, density, and digestion permit.