0 a part of bird's stomach that has thick muscles, where food is ground down (= broken into small pieces by pressing or squeezing), especially with very small stones:
Two nematode species were recovered from both the gizzard and caeca, and a single nematode species from the proventriculus and crop, respectively.
Regurgitated seeds are probably separated from the fruit pulp in the gizzard, and are then refluxed back into the foregut.
These products included ginger, yams, lily bulbs, dried ducks, dried fish and dried ducks' gizzards.
Helminths in the gizzard usually only became visible after removal of the lining.
The entire small intestine from the gizzard to the ileo-caecal junction was removed.
The proventriculus was separated from the gizzard, and the small intestine was separated from the gizzard and caeca.
Thus, those eggs, which have not been destroyed in the gizzard or during their stay in the faeces, are unharmed by the rather short passage through the digestive tract.
Salmonella transmission in broilers caecum without passing the crop and gizzard.
