ok, the latest Q from psychoboy2.........................

[psychomum5]

why do birds have white poo???

is it true that it is not 'poo', it is in fact the birds wee???

inquiring minds again need to know

[copingvquietly]

It is their way of getting rid of the nitrogen-containing waste products that result from natural protein metabolism. Mammals (e.g. humans) get rid of this waste in the form of urea in the urine. It takes a lot of water to dissolve the urea. It is believed that birds and other non-mammals try to conserve water by excreting the nitrogen-containing waste product in the form of uric acid. This is the white stuff. Birds only need to lose small amounts of water with the uric acid, compared to the amount lost in our urine. So it is actually not their poop, but their pee.

there!!! bamboozle him

[psychomum5]

you just bamboozled ME!!!

[whoops]

Ask him if birds have white poo what is purple/red that lands on on my car and windows on occassions

[psychomum5]

and DH is sat reading this with a face, and head went

[psychomum5]

DH is also asking if that next time we can have it in 'parents of five with no brain matter left' words.

ROFL

[copingvquietly]

what are you insinuating mrs psycho

[MrsSnape]

Snakes have white, solid wee ... No idea why

[psychomum5]

nothing at all......just very big words, very quickly....tis better to believe you cut and paste than to think that my brain has really died that much.

[Bronze]

Something like one in ten bird poos is a different consistancy.

[copingvquietly]

what big words lol

actuallly PMSL!!

[copingvquietly]

ok ok.i copy and pasted




hahahahaha

[psychomum5]

heheheh

[DontNeedAnything]

OK, OK, OK

I know this one..

Please miss (stretches hand in air as high as can be), please miss, canI answer this one....???

[copingvquietly]

am now going to maje it my job to think about bloody dificult question for psycho to answer

[psychomum5]

please tell me in simple language.

my brain died several years ago.

I cannot do big words!!!

[copingvquietly]

[wank]

[DontNeedAnything]

Ok.

CVQ was right in everything she said.

Basically birds only have 1 hole called a cloaca (or something like that). Their poo and wee accumulates there and kind of forms 1 waste product as opposed to the 2 that humand produce. I think that it basically falls out of the bird when it reaches a critical mass (although I may be dreaming that one).

CVQ is right in that it is white as it is mostly uric acid as opposed to urea. It goes dark in teh summer when the birds have been eating berries as the colour of the berries comes through teh digestive system.

No Googling or C&Ping involved.

[copingvquietly]

QUESTION FOR PSYCHO TO ANSWER FIRST!!!!!

ok you love reading so this is an easy one to start ok!!

Which famous writer died on his birthday???

[psychomum5]

thankyou for that more informative answer dontneedanything

CvQ......top of my head, no googling....I reckon shakespear???

[DontNeedAnything]

Don't know the answer to that one anyway....

[copingvquietly]

bummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

HUFF!right more difficult one now then hahaha

[DontNeedAnything]

I just wanted you to know that the bird doesn't deliberately aim and crap on you....it's shit just becaomes too heavy for it to carry so it falls out

[copingvquietly]

what is the latin name for scotland????

[psychomum5]

don'needanything.......so, birds don;t really aim and fire then???

[DontNeedAnything]

EASY....