14 OSTRICH-FARMING IN SOUTH AFRICA. 



that has yet appeared {See Worms). From the stomach 

 the food passes up into the gizzard, and from thence 

 into the intestines. The stomach and the gizzard are 

 united together, and held by a diaphragm to the left 

 side of the bird, to the left side of the backbone, and 

 to the diaphragm, which divides the body iji two. 

 Thus the right side of the body, when the stomach is 

 empty, has in it only the first small entrail ; when the 

 stomach is full, it extends nearly from side to side. 

 These are points that must be borne in mind when we 

 come to consider caponising. 



THE INTESTINES. 



These are roughly divided into the small and large 

 intestines, or otherwise the upper and lower. The small 

 intestines extend from the gizzard to the ^'coeca^'' 

 (otherwise known as the two blind stomachs, from their 

 having no outlet). In the small intestines the food is 

 converted into what is called chyle. It is here we find 

 the Tape-worm. From the ^' coeca" the large intestines 

 begin. First we have the maniply, or what corresponds 

 in cattle and sheep to the book paunch. From the 

 maniply we pass on down the large intestines to the 

 rectum. It is in these latter that we get constipation, or 

 stop sickness, which is so fatal to the Ostrich. 



