I *think* the crisis is averted, but I wanted to inquire what you guys think might have been the cause.
Yesterday, Dexter's poop was very strange. It was missing the solid portion altogether. There was just the clear liquid, no more than what is usually mixed with the solids. I was getting ready to rush him into the vet if symptoms persisted. He was acting, eating, and drinking normally, though he looks bad from his molt. (Scraggly chest feathers mostly). Today, he has a normal poop. I'm watching him like a hawk in case this happens again. I'm visiting the vet with him in a few weeks, I will ask for a gram stain or something.
I had seen poop like this from him before. Months ago, he swallowed a small tube I used for hand feeding, (I used a small syringe, the tubing was an inch long, it only extended the syringe tip to be the length of an appropriate sized syringe for a bird his size, I did not gavage feed him) and the next day (while I scraped the money together, as fast as I could) his poop was just like this. It was because 1) he'd all but stopped eating 2) what he did eat didn't make it past the tube. It was just the urine (I've forgotten my terminology), no solid waste.
He was eating fine yesterday, playing, drinking, etc. And is still today.
I wanted to know your guys take on it.
Yesterday, Dexter's poop was very strange. It was missing the solid portion altogether. There was just the clear liquid, no more than what is usually mixed with the solids. I was getting ready to rush him into the vet if symptoms persisted. He was acting, eating, and drinking normally, though he looks bad from his molt. (Scraggly chest feathers mostly). Today, he has a normal poop. I'm watching him like a hawk in case this happens again. I'm visiting the vet with him in a few weeks, I will ask for a gram stain or something.
I had seen poop like this from him before. Months ago, he swallowed a small tube I used for hand feeding, (I used a small syringe, the tubing was an inch long, it only extended the syringe tip to be the length of an appropriate sized syringe for a bird his size, I did not gavage feed him) and the next day (while I scraped the money together, as fast as I could) his poop was just like this. It was because 1) he'd all but stopped eating 2) what he did eat didn't make it past the tube. It was just the urine (I've forgotten my terminology), no solid waste.
He was eating fine yesterday, playing, drinking, etc. And is still today.
I wanted to know your guys take on it.