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The gizzard is the lump of muscle that grinds the food of the chicken.
The food passes into the crop, and is softened, then through the stomach where digestive juices are added, then into the gizzard,where the food is ground up by all the bits of grit the bird eats from day to day.
The gizzard is red meat, and in the olden days when you bought a bird the gizzard was sometimes left inside. it has quite a unique flavour, and takes a lot of cooking time to soften.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agothe chickens eat lots of limestone and shells to fill their gizzards and create their eggs.
the gizzard then mashes up the food with the rocks and shells in there. they do this by moving their head "like a chicken" which moves their gizzard back and forth.
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∙ 15y agoWhen it is alive, it is found in the throat. When it is packaged it is either in the cavity or in the neck skin.
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∙ 12y agoGizzards are used to grind up food they are a very tough organ.
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What is the function of gizzards?
The gizzard must be tough, for the gizzard's main function is to grind and digest tough food.
How does the gizzard aid in digestion?
The function of the gizzard in a grasshopper is to grind food. Gizzards are also found in chicken, fish, and some reptiles.
What is the function of crop grasshopper?
The function of the crop in an grasshopper is to store the food.
What does a gizzard do?
the chickens eat lots of limestone and shells to fill their gizzards and create their eggs. the gizzard then mashes up the food with the rocks and shells in there. they do this by moving their head "like a chicken" which moves their gizzard back and forth.
What organ of a human is similar to a chicken gizzard?
The mouth with teeth help to grind food into smaller pieces. This has a similar function to a bird's gizzard.
What part of the chicken is the gizzard?
The gizzard is like the second stomach of the chicken. They aren't bad for you, but they're like our intestines. Would you eat them?
What is the organ that grinds up food in an earthworm?
The gizzard.
What happens if the chicken expels its gizzard?
It dies
Chicken have a special stomach called a what?
gizzard
What is inside the crop gizzard and intestines of a worm?
The gizzard is a muscular organ used for grinding food during digestion. After a worm sucks in food with their pharynx, it moves to the esophagus, then to the crop to store it, then to the gizzard, to the stomach, to the intestine, then it leaves through its anus.
Does a chicken have a crop or a craw?
Crop and craw are the same thing in a chicken. It's a pouch in the upper chest designed to store food and soften it before it enters the esophagus heading for the gizzard to be ground up then to the other stomach before traveling through a tube on it's way out the vent.
How is food digested in an earthworm?
It has an esophagus for the food to go down, a crop to store the food in, a gizzard that grinds the food down, intestines for the food to pass through and take out nutrients.
