DIGESTIVE SYSTEM Flashcards
Made up of organs concerned with: feed ingestion,
storage, digestion, and excretion of waste product.
It consists of the alimentary tract and its accessory
organs, the liver and pancreas.
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
this tract is subdivided into: mouth,
esophagus, crop, proventriculus, gizzard, small
intestine, ceca, large intestine, cloca, and vent.
alimentary tract
Flexible tube that
connects mouth
to the crop.
ESOPHAGUS
The ____ is used in
grasping the food
which is then
propelled backward to
the esophagus where
it is carried by
peristalsis, aided by
gravity, down to the
crop.
BEAK
Moisten and
temporary
storage
CROP
“STOMACH OF THE
BIRD”
PROVENTRICULUS
Uses acids and
digestive enzymes
to breakdown
food.
PROVENTRICULUS
Like “TEETH”,
It mechanically
grinds up food
particles.
GIZZARD / VENTRICULUS
Three sections small intestine
Duodenum
Ileum,
Jejunum
Fermentation of
any left-over food
particles/ water
absorption
CECA
its function is to absorption
of nutrients from the
food
SMALL INTESTINE
Further water absorption
LARGE INTESTINE (COLON)
its Function is
responsible for
expulsion of feces
and urine through
the vent.
CLOACA
Also known as the
“vestibule”
CLOACA
Its multi-lobed organ and its Functions produce bile to digest fats (stored
in the gall bladder)
LIVER
how many hour in growing of pullet and for laying chickens.?
It is fastest in growing (4 hours in pullet)
and laying (8 hours) chickens.
how many hours passage of food?
ranges from 2 to
24 hours.
Produces
insulin, useful in
carbohydrate
digestion.
PANCREAS
