05-09-2018, 11:42 PM
It seems rather odd that a bird would produce that much liquid. From my admittedly unscientific observation, they don't seem to process nearly as much water as a mammal of similar size. Hopefully, that boy had a good, long drink available to him after all that. My only bird experience involved slipping my fingers between a rooster and a hen while visiting my uncle's farm. I only noticed a slight moistening of my fingers and didn't have the nerve to taste it.
I had another older, neutered male dog who somehow managed to survive with 15-20 percent kidney function the last 4 years of his life. His urine was basically colorless, nearly odorless and mostly tasteless. (The Vet said the specific gravity of the urine was very low.) I never collected and sampled a marking shot from him, but his urination was frequent and considerable volume. He drank quite a lot of water. What I ended up tasting was the little bit left over during oral; he was usually wet there due to the frequent elimination. Surprisingly, he survived until age 17 and passed from something unrelated to renal failure.
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I suspect that dogs and other animals that mark with urine have some extra chemistry that they can switch on when marking territory. I'm fairly sure it's ordinary urine with added ingredients.
