The keel is the large bone you see when you eat a roasted chicken and pull the breast meat away from the large flat bone that looks like the keel of a boat. The keel is the "breast bone"....flattened and elongated in birds to give a place for the wing muscles to attach...allowing more power for flight. It is also used to check how healthy a bird is....if you can feel the keel easily and it seems to be protruding, the bird is underweight. If you can feel solid muscle and body weight on either side, making the keel just a line found between muscles if you can find it at all, then the bird is eating alright and keeping weight.
Sternum.
There are many places since the bird has a lot of it. You can find it at the end of each long bone and at what is called the rostrum or breast bone. This sticks up like the bow of a boat.
the breast bone.
There is only one breast bone in your body.It is called the sternum bone.
A chicken has one breast. That breast is separated into two lobes by the breast bone. The breast bone runs down the middle of the chicken breast making it appear like two when it is cooked.
The breast bone is actually between the breast and is called the sternum. The bones beneath the breast are the ribcage
spinal cord
The breast bone is actually between the breast and is called the sternum. The bones beneath the breast are the ribcage
Breast bone is round and a leg bone is straight
Sternum.
The Sternum