Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/541/en

Digestion is just as rapid as in wild fowl. The highly concentrated food passes unchewed into the crop; from there into the glandular stomach and on into the muscular stomach, where it is ground down. After swift passage through the intestine and large intestine, with a pause in the two caeca, it is excreted together with the urine via the cloaca. Corresponding to the original food and the rapid digestion, what arises is a highly concentrated manure, rich in organic substance as well as nitrogen and phosphorus salts — a valuable organo-mineral blending material for plant composts or other animal manures. The salt character of poultry excretions corresponds to their pronounced head-pole, or nerve-sense nature, which is further emphasised by the nearly vertical posture of these running birds along the axis of head, outstretched neck, breast and legs. The particular metabolic achievements do not, as with the ruminants, communicate themselves to the digestive stream — they are taken up entirely into growth (flesh) and reproduction (eggs).