Title: Explain digestion in poultry.
Course: Livestock Production Management (18301-II) > Section: Producing Poultry

Explanation should include

- examining the digestive tract of the nonruminant, similar to that of other animals, but including several special organs
- identifying the crop, gizzard, proventriculus, cloaca, ceca, and vent
- identifying the major feed ingredients most popular for poultry rations.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How do chickens digest ingested food when they have no teeth?
- What are the functions of the crop and gizzard?
- What are the functions of the two blind pouches known as ceca?
- What three products from a bird's body pass out of the body through the vent?