Do chickens pee?

[fiddleblue]

I was wondering if chickens urinate, or do they just do number two? Or do they combine eliminations and roll all into one "ball" so to speak? Come to think of it I have never seen any bird urinate so I am curious about this aspect of chicken and perhaps other bird biology.

 

[silkiechicken]

They don't pee like mammals, rather put their crystal urates into that little white cap you see on their poo.

 

[Rennie]

I have never seen mine pee ..
Im assuming it all comes out together .. Ive seen alot of that stuff

 

[al6517]

When I see mine Pee I tell them to leave the lid up,

hehehehe, sorry couldn't help myself. They expell their urine through their droppings, the white stuff on the top is Urine.

AL

 

[elmo]

Chickens' "pee" is solid, like other birds. It's the whitish portion of their droppings.
These solid urates are a much more weight efficient way of excreting waste from the bloodstream than the system mammals use; birds have many similar weight efficient adaptations (like hollow bones, for example).

 

[3goodeggs]

Everything happens at the cloaca. It is latin for sewer. ev-er-y-th-ing.

 

[teach1rusl]

Quote:
I HATE when mine leave the lid UP!!!

 

[Country Heart]

 

[Happy Chooks]