author(s)
Gajendra Singh, Hemant Joshi, Nishant Parmar, Devendra Saran and Balwant Meshram

abstract
The present experiment was conducted on 12 healthy Guinea fowl birds without sex discrimination. The Guinea fowl bird possesses two kidneys which were reddish-brown and retroperitoneally placed symmetrically on either side of the vertebral column in the depression of synsacrum and iliac fossa. The Guinea fowl kidney had two surfaces viz. dorsal and ventral along with three structural components viz. cranial, middle and caudal. These three components were observed demarcated by oblique groove present on ventral surface of the kidney. The cranial component of both kidneys was smallest and caudal surface was largest. The maximum length and width of the right and left kidney was measured as 54.23±1.206 mm & 53.21±1.226 mm and 12.73±0.514 mm & 13.39±0.37 mm respectively. Weight and volume of the right and left kidney was measured 4.78±0.119 gm & 4.75±0.169 gm and 4.34±0.12 ml & 4.14±0.156 ml respectively.