Ever heard of this?

[desertdarlene]

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Hmmm, that's not what all the experts say. Just Google it. I know that you can't believe everything on the internet, but check the sources. It sounds like they can vomit the contents into their crop and then out their mouth.

BTW, I've vomited rice. That guy might not have, but I have.

 

[punk-a-doodle]

Rats and some other animals can't vomit, but birds can. Blue jays vomit up monarchs for instance. http://www.flickr.com/photos/reston_resident/5254080117/

 

[ChooksinChoppers]

And Fans blowing on you can't kill you either....did you know when they first invented the car they thought going that fast would kill you? something about the air getting sucked away from you or not being able to breath...something crazy like that

 

[Frost Homestead]

Turkey Vultures vomit as a self-defense mechanism and to lighten their load so they can fly to escape a potential predator.

 

[chickan dippaaaaz]

the one about fans is totally true....

 

[sourland]

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Fact- I'm a victim of vulture puke!

Rice and exploding birds--C'mon does that even sound logical??? FICTION!

 

[welsummerchicks]

That's right, it is possible.

And in the old days, people often died of ruptured stomachs if they ate uncooked grains. CHildren might be very hungry and grains had to be stored so kids couldn't get at them.

Remember in the movie, 'Tree of the Wooden Clogs'? The little girl ruptured her stomach and died from eating uncooked wheat grains. And in fact I've heard of other homeless people doing similar things - eating uncooked food because they don't have anywhere to cook and uncooked grain in bags is cheap.

With very small birds, uncooked rice can get caught in their throat and crop, and even rupture their crop - their throat isn't like a duck's or chicken's. This is why we were told to throw bird seed and not rice.

From what I understand little birds love rice and will gorge on it.

As far as the man saying that birds don't come on his porch because he sprinkles rice and rice makes them explode, that sounds like more Impossible Logic.

Birds don't watch other birds die and think, 'DAY-UM, I better stop going to that guy's porch. Charlie did and look what happened to Charlie'. Birds don't think that way.

Further, there is an endless supply of birds (as far as the guy and his porch are concerned) to replace any birds that explode.

Except they don't explode. THey can get sick or starve to death with a blocked throat or rupture their crops, though.

But again, birds don't have a lot of Cultural Wisdom they go to bird school to learn.

And yes, many people from very warm areas of the world think it's just terrible to sleep in front of a fan - to eat ice cream, cold tea, etc. Many will not drink water with ice in it - 'Are you KIDDING? IT'S COLD ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!' When I traveled in those areas someone was always running around shutting all the windows of the house if it dropped below 80. I finally would go sleep on the open porch, much to their horror.

When I had some friends here, they put on their winter coats when the temperature in the house went below 80. I'd come home and they'd have the heat cranked up to about 85 and barely be ready to take off their coats.

 

[TheBrumstead]

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Um... then my husband and I died almost 7 years ago.

Well, he would have died way before then. He sleeps with a small Honeywell fan blowing right on him, every night. I got hooked on it and bought one for myself. So two fans, every night.

 

[BrattishTaz]

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Hmmm, that's not what all the experts say. Just Google it. I know that you can't believe everything on the internet, but check the sources. It sounds like they can vomit the contents into their crop and then out their mouth.

BTW, I've vomited rice. That guy might not have, but I have.

I Googled and found no experts saying they can vomit. I did find something on Wiki but I would not consider that a reliable source. It is possible that I am wrong since I am not an "expert" but I have never seen a chicken vomit stomach contents. I have seen them regurgitate crop contents.

You have vomited uncooked rice? Did someone dare you to eat it?

To clarify my earlier statements, when I said "bird", I meant "chicken".

I'm sure vulture puke is quite unpleasant.

 

[MandyH]

Sleeping in front of a fan surely doesn't kill you. In the summer we sleep with a ceiling fan going, an oscillating fan in our face, AND the air conditioner blowing on us. It may make you fat though, yeah that's my escuse, the fan did it.