As a bird owner of 240 show budgies and 30 princess parrots, finches and canaries, and I was a vet nurse....I know birds dont have periods or menstrual cycles but theres been a few questions and answers on here lately where some advise that birds have periods and others advise that birds have menstrual cycles.....and the ones that say this profess to be experts with birds. This menstrual cycles and periods for birds is NOT true. Answers required here and now that those of you that believe this wrong information post your proof on here now.
2011-06-16T22:27:53Z
I am asking for those who think its true that birds have periods and menstrual cycles to post their proof here...................
2011-06-16T22:59:32Z
Those that know birds dont have menstrual cycles and periods also post your answers here
2011-06-16T23:35:04Z
They can mate and not produce eggs. Very much like the australian kangaroo that will not produce a foetus unless conditions are right, a bird will not make eggs from mating unless conditions are right. That means plentiful food and somewhere safe to raise a family. Birds do not have wombs or bleed every month and thats what a menstrual cycle and period is. For so called bird experts to tell others on here that birds do have menstrual cycles and periods show how little people know. Use this as an avenue to post your correct information or if you disagree post your proof.
evilkitty8882011-06-17T00:59:07Z
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You're absolutely right moggie! Birds, as a matter of fact, do NOT have periods. Don't you hate it when people give false information and lie about their qualifications. Do mammals have periods? No, not all mammals menstruate, most of them don't. They have an estrous cycle. It is similar and easily mistaken for a period but it's not the same thing.
I saw, on another answer, a "professional vet" saying that birds DO have periods. It's sad how people PRETEND to be vets, thinking it's some game or something. Grrrr. It is also horrible how innocent clueless people are choosing the WRONG advice just because it is given by some 'vet'. The kangaroos supplies of embryos that lay dormant. One embryo gets into production at a time and once the joey has left, the next embryo is triggered to swing into reproduction and so forth. When the joey is suckling it sends signals tells the mother kangaroo to stop the production.
I know as a fact, that moggie is a well respected person in the Y!A bird field. BUT, sometimes our answers get overruled by some false information given by fake 'vets'. For goodness sakes, I saw an answer where a 13 year old claimed to be a 'vet'. I thought "Darling! Get back to school! Do your homework! Get off Y!A! "
People claiming to be vets giving down right dangerous advise is just HORRIBLE. Just because they are doing it online does not mean it is right, heck, by means its even more cowardly and WRONG than lying in person!
Yeah, you just answered your question & maybe you should take a closer look at the idiots who tell people the wrong information rather than the people who've been informed of the wrong information. When you're just learning & naive you take anything on board. Education is the key!
As for the roos. They have a supply of embryos that lay dormant. One embryo swings into production at a time. Once the joey has left the pouch, died, or whatever the next embryo is triggered to swing into reproduction. When the joey is suckling it sends off signals that temporarily cease reproduction. They can have 3 embryo's & joeys in 1 year. So there's a little more to it than just storing & favourable conditions.
Its not just the bird section you see this kind of thing in, it is all the pet sections (and I'm sure many other areas of YA too) "Expert trainers" giving the worst possible advise, people claiming to be vets and vet techs giving down right dangerous advise, "cat experts" telling people their grey bi-color moggie is defiantly a purebred Russian Blue they are 100% sure etc, "expert aquariumists" telling people its fine to keep an Oscar in a 10 gal tank, fish don't outgrow the tank they are in etc.
The sad thing is the truly inexperienced owners or would be owners believe them because they claim to be experts.
I think it is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard people say. But the sad thing is they sell it as the truth. This can be so dangerous if someone sees blood coming from their birds vent and mistake it for a 'period'.
So many dead birds can come of this information, and people need to pull their head in and keep quiet if they don't know the answer. Even sarcastic answers are better than wrong ones.