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Most of the digestion starts to take place in the proventiculus, the organ just above the gizzard.This is a very good article about the chicken’s digestive system: https://ohio4h.org/sites/ohio4h/files/imce/animal_science/Poultry/Avian%20Digestive%20System%20-%20eXtension.pdf

With chickens eventually you will lose one now and then. I have had some live 10 years, while others have died after a couple of years or more. The 10 year olds were killed by a bobcat in the middle of the day, so might have lived another couple of years. I usually did a necropsy on most of my...

Sorry I did not comment earlier since I didn’t see anything obvious. Did you see any yellow fluid come out when you opened the abdominal wall? Here is a good video to look at on a chicken necropsy, although it is way too complicated, and you only need to look at the primary organs—liver...