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[roosterhavoc]

Read it again.

They need water to properly regulate body temp. The lose more water when eating more.

 

[roosterhavoc]

WTF are you doing questioning him

Wasn’t questioning. I was telling.

 

[roosterhavoc]

No need to make this more complicated than it is. Chickens systems are different but it’s the same thing. You eat, water is needed for digestion, heat is produced, water and crap is expelled, put it back in rinse and repeat.

 

[sdm111]

I was always on the assumption give feed and water and when they want some they get some when they don't they dont. I don't see how they survived

 

[centrarchid]

Critters, like birds, have the ability to scavenge water associated with metabolism. Some of the water is lost through respiration, with feces, and though excretion of nitrogenous waste products produced by liver and removed from bloodstream by kidney. Most fish and many amphibians take transformation no farther than ammonia before excreting through gills or skin. Much water needed for that approach as the body voids the ammonia which is toxic as hell. Mammals, most of you are mammals except shubin, invest a little energy to convert the ammonia into urea which is much less toxic and does not take as much water to void. Birds and many what you call reptiles are generally adapted to be even more water conserving where even more energy is invested to create uric acid that is excreted with much less water as paste.

Many critters, like use an chickens, can further adjust loss of water through feces by reclaiming some before excretion of solids.

Water not lost, whether injested directly or generated by metabolic activity, then can be used for other purposes such as lubrication and reinvestment in food processing. Saliva is part you can see easily.

It is not non-regulated all in / all out process as often depicted.

 

[centrarchid]

They need water to properly regulate body temp. The lose more water when eating more.

You are pushing your head up your own butt.

 

[SOHC-FTW]

That wasn't very nice you even hurt my feelings.

 

[roosterhavoc]

For your average backyard chicken keeper none of that is useful. Nobody really cares. Aside from all that Jibjab they still need plenty of water in winter. Sure they can survive without much but why wouldn’t you make sure they have access. Humans can go without food for a long time depending on your body. How often do you fast? No medical reasons either. You don’t do it because your would rather eat and feel better. This is common sense. A professional thinker at work reinventing the wheel as usual. The amount of time it took you to come up with that long winded dissertation you could have given all your birds warm water and stood there with a headlamp on to make sure they got some water. I suggest you find a better use of your time.

 

[centrarchid]

We were having a discussion. Follow link below. It has direct relevance to outcomes of these discussions. A few parties need to change and I am one of them. You are among the few as well.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/...s-changing-how-we-feel-about-objective-truth/

 

[B123]

Birds and many what you call reptiles are generally adapted to be even more water conserving where even more energy is invested to create uric acid that is excreted with much less water as paste.

Many critters, like use an chickens, can further adjust loss of water through feces by reclaiming some before excretion of solids.

For those that may be concerned...lol The uric acid is the white "frosting" on the chicken feces. Birds are good at removing moisture from their feces to conserve water, but I feel better carrying out warm water twice a day when it is like this.