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: --
They grind their food by the use of a muscular organ called the gizzard.
As a result food becomes blocked, sometimes all the way from the gizzard to the head.
This is held in the gizzard and used for grinding.
There are two very short matters which stick in the gizzards of many.
Lead poisoning occurs because, to break down and digest vegetation, a swan ingests large quantities of grit and gravel, which are retained in the gizzard.
Subsequently, the crop, proventriculus, gizzard, small intestine and caeca were washed separately over a 150 mm sieve and, together with the residue, examined under a stereoscopic microscope.
For each bird, the liver and alimentary tract, comprising the glandular stomach, gizzard and intestine, were extracted, sealed in plastic bags and frozen until processing in the laboratory.
Salmonella transmission in broilers caecum without passing the crop and gizzard.
