Anatomical study in proximal part of alimentary tract in Guinea fowl
Subject Areas : Large Animal Diseases
Jalil Pourhaji Motab
1
(Assistant professor of Department of Veterinary Medicine, Garmsar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Garmsar, Iran.)
Sayyed Rashid Hashemi
2
(Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Research Group, Academic Center for Education, Culture, Research(ACECR), Khorasan Razavi Branch, Mashhad, Iran.)
Keywords: Anatomy, stomach, esophagus, Guinea fowl,
Abstract :
Digestive tract in avian there is from oral cavity until cloaca. Esophagus for foodstuffs transport, Crop for food temporary storage and Proventriculus and Gizzard for chemical and mechanical digestion are considerable importance in avian digestive system. In this respect there is no anatomical research performed on pheasant family as guinea fowl. For this study 20 adult male and female guinea fowl were selected and this organs were anatomically studied. Then we have done morphometrical study from esophagus, crop, proventriculus, isthmus and gizzard. Macroscopic results were basically the same as other poultry. Anatomical Special Features and different were in the crop and proventriculus. Crop was Pear shaped and proventriculus is curvature tube shaped. T student result there is no significance difference in the size of males and females in this organs. The results of this therefore , can be used as the basic anatomical knowledge is this species. Key words: Anatomy, esophagus, stomach, guinea fowl.
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