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SMALL 



CECUM V\ (INTESTINE 



LOWER MANDIBLE 

 TONGUE 



OPENING TO TRACHEA 



MUSCLES CONTROLLING 

 TONGUE 



OPENING INTCGULLET 



GALL-BLADDEft 

 BILE DUCT 



GIZZARD 



PANCREAS 

 DUODENAL LOOP 



Fig. 108. — The Digestive System op the Fowl 



The digestive system of the fowl differs in several respects from those of the 

 larger farm animals. (From Lappincott, Poultry Production.) 



but both are excreted thru a common chamber, the cloaca. Most of 

 the water in the urine is reabsorbed in the cloaca, and the urine is 

 voided as a whitish paste with the feces. The nitrogenous waste is 

 excreted chiefly in the form of uric acid, instead of as urea, as with 

 mammals. 



Nowhere in the digestive tract of poultry does much digestion of 



