AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -birds. …the stomach forms a thin-walled crop, which is the bird’s principal organ for the temporary storage of food.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chickens don’t have teeth and they’re prey animals, so they can’t waste much time chewing. Instead, they swallow food quickly and store it away in their crop, a pouch-like organ meant solely for storage. It’s the first pit stop for her layer feed. Within the crop, very little digestion occurs.

Detailed explanation-3: -The main function of the crop is to store feed while the proventriculus and gizzard are full of feed. Shortly after feed is ingested, it is normal for the crop to be distended and full of feed.

Detailed explanation-4: -The crop is a muscular bag at the bottom of a hen’s neck which stores feed for the day and on occasion can become impacted.

Detailed explanation-5: -Crop: A pouch in the esophagus used to store food temporarily before moving it on to the stomach.