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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:37:24 AM EDT
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IIRC, the white stuff is the highly-concentrated pee. The black lump is the poo.
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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:37:42 AM EDT
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Unlike mammals, birds don't urinate. Their kidneys extract nitrogenous wastes from the bloodstream, but instead of excreting it as urea dissolved in urine as we do, they excrete it in the form of uric acid. Uric acid has a very low solubility in water, so it emerges as a white paste. This material, as well as the output of the intestines, emerges from the bird's cloaca. The cloaca is a multi-purpose hole for birds: their wastes come out of it, they have sex by putting their cloacas together, and females lay eggs out of it. Duh...  |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:38:20 AM EDT
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God created them that way. Who are you to question Him?
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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:38:56 AM EDT
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Oh, I forgot to mention....
It also had a few dark chunks in it, but like I say....mostly white. |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:40:18 AM EDT
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Totally different digestive system. For one, birds have no bladder nor teeth. Birds must ingest stones, aka "grit" so the gizzard has something to crush the food from the crop against. These grit wear away, leaving behind minerals which may be white.
Birds have no large intestine, hence they have no microflora (bacteria) that generate the familiar brown color along with bile. And birds (save ostriches) have no bladder, so their urine is often excreted with the feces. High mineral content in the urine often has a white precipitate. |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:40:46 AM EDT
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Son, you need to get a life. Your fixation with me and my life ain't healthy. I say this because I care. |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:44:27 AM EDT
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The real fun begins when the birds feast on mulberries, and the fecal matter contains a very concentrated and almost impossible to wash out purple pigment.
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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:47:16 AM EDT
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Search me....
 but they doo-doo. 
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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:50:16 AM EDT
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I don't know if I am fascinated or disgusted. But thanks either way. |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:50:42 AM EDT
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Right. If my chickens get an increase in the white portion on the poo/pee they are sick or dehydrated. |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:53:45 AM EDT
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That reply is right out of the Dark Ages: " Don't question anything God did!". Ohhhhh,we be scared savages, we be! |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:54:30 AM EDT
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There is a real bad chicken choking joke in there somewhere. |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 4:58:32 AM EDT
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I goggled "Why is bird poop white"....I feel the same way. I will never look at a birds butt the same again 
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Posted: 4/11/2006 5:00:10 AM EDT
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The question should be "Why do birds wait until you've finished waxing the (black) car before pooping on it?"...
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Posted: 4/11/2006 5:13:46 AM EDT
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Aint that the truth. I got a Dark Blue Cherokee Sport. I have a two car detached garage with a car port on the side of the Garage. It still get's hit after a wash. All of my trees are in the front yard. I have no trees, just power lines, near the garage. It is like a poop magnent. |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 5:15:43 AM EDT
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Like in the commercial (Windex?), they sit up there on the power lines and wait for the right moment.
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Posted: 4/11/2006 5:17:28 AM EDT
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You'd be amazed that birds can reproduce at all if you saw how difficult it is for them to have sex. FWIW, I raise a few ducks & geese and I never knew what sex they were until they were adults. I bought a book on sexing fowl and after reading up on the proceedure, I decided it wasn't that important to know right away.
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Posted: 4/11/2006 6:07:25 AM EDT
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My God, is there anything that can't be googled?
And you guys that already knew the answer, how long have you been sitting on that little gem of knowledge??? 
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Posted: 4/11/2006 10:36:16 AM EDT
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The fact that you think I really give a crap about you makes me laugh. As far as the sigline goes...I simply thought that was funny. Don't flatter yourself by thinking otherwise. |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 10:39:01 AM EDT
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Seriously..........THANK YOU Mr. Science! 
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Posted: 4/11/2006 10:40:24 AM EDT
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that white shit will eat your car's finish. you should wash it off ASAP to prevent paint damage
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Posted: 4/11/2006 10:42:00 AM EDT
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So the old saying about the white part being shit also is not true?
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Posted: 4/11/2006 10:48:24 AM EDT
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You forgot already?  
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Posted: 4/11/2006 10:49:37 AM EDT
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I have one in front of my house, if I step on a crushed berry it stains my skin purple and its like ink to get off, fucking birds eat it and they'll stain my white fence or the side of my house |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 10:51:45 AM EDT
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I now know one more thing in life to help me get through the day
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Posted: 4/11/2006 10:59:35 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/11/2006 11:01:57 AM EDT
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Hey! You and the Boids have something in common! Neither of you washes your hands after a steamy dump!
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Posted: 4/11/2006 11:03:03 AM EDT
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You got that right. When I was a kid we had a mulberry tree in the back yard. Mom would hang the sheets on the line to dry and I can still hear her screaming about the birds as she would take the sheets back to the laundry room to get the bird dirt out of them. They finally cut it down  . The berries were tasty.
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Posted: 4/11/2006 11:11:01 AM EDT
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couldn't you have lived happily ever after without knowing this?
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Posted: 4/11/2006 11:16:32 AM EDT
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Posted: 4/11/2006 11:22:38 AM EDT
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The fact that you turned a bird poop thread into an opportunity to poop on me because of your differing views on creation / evolution tells the whole story on you. Let it go, man. Just enjoy a good bird poop thread. Its not like the opportunity comes along that often  |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 11:37:14 AM EDT
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 Mimus Polyglottos the Northern Mockingbird, favors mulberries and takes great delight in leaving its mark upon our frail human efforts at tidiness. |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 11:48:05 AM EDT
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Some birds are good shots!
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Posted: 4/11/2006 11:50:54 AM EDT
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The white part isn't fecal matter. It's uric acid, secreted by the bird's kidneys.
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Posted: 4/11/2006 6:10:50 PM EDT
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Which brings to mind an interesting experiment - if a human laid a turd on my car, and I didn't wash it off, I wonder if it would hurt my paint? |
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Posted: 4/11/2006 6:15:38 PM EDT
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If they had just has Taco Bell, it would probably eat right through the metal! |
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