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Chickens do drink water and urinate but not like humans. Feces, urine, and urates are all combined at the cloaca, the end of the bird's digestive, urinary, and reproductive tracts. The three waste products are usually evacuated together as one dropping. Feces should be firm and dark brown or green in color, depending upon the species of bird and the diet. If the staple diet is seed, feces will be dark green; while if the staple diet is pelleted food, it will take on the color of the pellets. When feces dry, they often look black. Urine should be clear.
Urates should be creamy-white, opaque, and almost chalky in appearance.

2007-09-04 05:53:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4 0

Birds and reptiles conserve water through a different mechanism. They convert the nitrogenous waste material into uric acid. Uric acid is not soluble in water and hence are voided out like a white paste thereby avoiding using water to flush out waste material. Other animals such as mammals convert the nitrogenous waste materials into urea which is highly soluble in water and need lots of water to excrete it. However, the mammals have an efficient kidney which will reabsorb most of the water from the urine and give out least or minimum amount of urine so that we conserve precious water.

2007-09-04 09:16:45 · answer #2 · answered by BP-LO 4 · 0 0

Chickens, like all birds, need water to stay alive, just like humans, too. It is extremely vital to all of their body's functions. Their urine and poop is all deposited as one blob from a single opening called the cloaca, or 'vent', which serves both urinary, digestive, and reproductive functions. Chickens have no urinary bladder. They have no need for a urinary bladder to temporarily store urine like we do, because their urine is not in a liquid form. Their ureters empty directly into the cloaca and the urates are deposited as a white paste that caps the feces.

2007-09-04 15:02:27 · answer #3 · answered by Mary M 4 · 0 0

chickens, like all living things, require at least some water for the processes of life to work. They don't drink much because birds try to reduce weight uptake so that they can fly away as necessary. Since they don't drink much, they try to use it as efficiently as possible, and control water loss as much as possible. Water-loss restriction by changes in water excretion were already detailed above.

2007-09-04 09:13:17 · answer #4 · answered by John R 7 · 0 1

Do Chickens Have Bladders

2017-01-09 11:27:36 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Because the get cottonmouth when they smoke their weed

2007-09-04 05:45:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 2

their urine is found in their fecal matter/ sh*t

2007-09-04 05:43:29 · answer #7 · answered by physics maniac 2 · 2 0

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