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The oesophagus is the first

part of the digestive tract

Chickens don’t have teeth, so they can’t chew food in their mouths. A chicken picks up food in her beak and swallows it with the help of her tongue. The food travels down the esophagus to the crop where the chicken stores the food until she can digest it at her leisure.

Chewing food happens a little farther down the line in the gizzard. This muscular organ acts as the bird’s teeth to grind the food and mix it with digestive juices, with the help of several small stones that have been hanging out inside the gizzard, ever since the chicken ate them a while back.

The ceca are blind pouches located where the small and large intestines come together.

Water and primary nutrients

are absorbed here.

Nutrients are absorbed here as the food passes toward the cloaca.

Chickens don’t pee, and they don’t have a bladder. Urinary system wastes produced by the kidneys are simply dumped in with the digestive wastes at the end of the digestive system, the cloaca. That’s why normal chicken droppings contain white urates mixed with darker digested material.

Chicken Digestive Systems!!!!!

Chicken Digestive systems are different to most other animals. Understanding a chicken digestive system will allow us to understand more about the life of chickens.

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