FEMALE CHICKEN REPRODUCTIVE

Question 1

ESOPHAGUS

Answer 1

1. carries food from mouth to the crop, and from the crop to the proventriculus

Question 2

CROP

Answer 2

1. stores food temporarily before moving it on the stomach

Question 3

OVARY

Answer 3

1. cluster of developing follicles that is a sack containing the developing yolk

Question 4

INFUNDIBULUM

Answer 4

1. site where the egg can become fertilized if sperm is present

Question 5

MAGNUM

Answer 5

1. site for albumen (egg white) secretion

Question 6

ISTHMUS

Answer 6

1. outer and inner shell membrane secretion

Question 7

UTERUS

Answer 7

1. site where a hard calcified shell is placed around the developing egg

Question 8

VAGINA

Answer 8

1. made of muscle that helps push the egg out of the hen’s body