Chicken Bone Anatomy

Long bones are usually hollow with the hollow filled with bone marrow and extensions of the air sacs. Lets go over the fundamental differences of humans and birds.

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Humans have dreamed of flight as the ultimate expression of freedom.

Chicken bone anatomy. 2record data on a chart on the board and have students prepare their own data charts. Chicken anatomy is a huge subject to cover in one article so we have really pared it down to the basics for ease of understanding. Birds have mystified us for millennia.

Place one chicken leg bone in a container of household vinegar. In a chicken the femur holds the thigh meat and the fibulatibia combination holds the meat of the drumstick. Put a lid or layer of plastic wrap over it to keep the vinegar smell from getting out.

In birds its primary function is in the strengthening of the thoracic skeleton to withstand the rigors of flight. The difference between chicken bones human bones. Make sure the entire bone is completely covered with vinegar.

The main type of muscle cells in the dark meat of legs and thighs are meant for sustained effort such as walking around. The metatarsus of a chicken is known as the shank and the chicken walks on its toes. Provide enough vinegar to cover the bone.

With the help of an adult put one of the bones in a jar or bowl filled with vinegar. Wrap the second bone in plastic wrap and place it next to the jar. Wishbone of a chicken the furcula little fork in latin or wishbone is a forked bone found in birds and some dinosaurs and is formed by the fusion of the two clavicles.

The areas we will cover here today are. Select two chicken leg bones dry off any excess moisture remove any meat and gristle weigh and measure the length of each specimen. Other types of birds that are better flyers than chickens have all dark meat muscle.

A comparison of the leg joints of chickens and humans is not quite as obvious as a comparison of the arm joints. While some differences such as feathers are obvious other differences in anatomy and physiology make flight possible for our winged friends. In birds much of the bone is laid down in successive layers to form dense compact bone covered by the cellular periosteum on the outside.

Chicken breast meat is white because the majority of muscle cells there are the type cut out for short bursts of activity not long flights. References provided will give you greater in depth knowledge if you want to delve further into chicken anatomy.

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