Volume: 49 Issue: 2
Year: 2018, Page: 67-69,
Received: Aug. 14, 2017 Accepted: Aug. 25, 2017 Published: July 1, 2018
The present study was conducted on the liver of day-old Beltsville Small White turkey poults. The liver of day- old poult was located in thoracoabdominal cavity and was composed of right and left lobes. The right lobe was larger than the left lobe and the latter was subdivided further into dorsal and ventral parts. The liver weighed 1.74 ± 0.020g and its right lobe was ellipsoidal whereas left lobe was triangular. It was yellow in colour and presented by two surfaces, viz. parietal and visceral and three borders viz. medial, lateral and caudal. The present suggests that the morphological features of liver in the day-old Beltsville Small White turkey poult except colour were similar to those of adult turkey
Keywords: Liver, Gross anatomy, Day-old poult, Beltsville Small White turkey
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