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Now I’ve brought my conure to the vet twice since the issue began (and plan on bringing her in again since the issue is still persisting) but just wanted to get some advice from some people on here.
My conure is over weight (had seed diet her whole life unfortunately, working on getting her off but she is very very stubborn and picky so it is a challenge but Im not giving up on it) and she drinks a lot of water in which her droppings are very watery and mostly water. I’m wondering if her being overweight is what is causing her to drink excessively? When I brought her into the vet, the vet ran tests on her kidneys/livers which came back fine. We did a doxy shot on her (which she had a bad reaction to, threw up everything she ate for about 2 days but she is back to normal now) which didn’t seem to help much. Other than the water poop she is totally normal, which I understand birds hide their illnesses as a defensive mechanism, but shes the same old Avery.
I want to bring her back in for the vet to do a test on the stool to see if they can find the issue there. If not, maybe check out her crop since she seems to extend her neck as much as she can upwards from time to time to adjust/clear her crop.
Also, I’ve read a lot of the forum on how to switch from seeds to pellets, but nothing seems to work. If anyone has had a stubborn conure like mine and was successful in switching them to pellets please let me know what you did and I will try it out.
My conure is over weight (had seed diet her whole life unfortunately, working on getting her off but she is very very stubborn and picky so it is a challenge but Im not giving up on it) and she drinks a lot of water in which her droppings are very watery and mostly water. I’m wondering if her being overweight is what is causing her to drink excessively? When I brought her into the vet, the vet ran tests on her kidneys/livers which came back fine. We did a doxy shot on her (which she had a bad reaction to, threw up everything she ate for about 2 days but she is back to normal now) which didn’t seem to help much. Other than the water poop she is totally normal, which I understand birds hide their illnesses as a defensive mechanism, but shes the same old Avery.
I want to bring her back in for the vet to do a test on the stool to see if they can find the issue there. If not, maybe check out her crop since she seems to extend her neck as much as she can upwards from time to time to adjust/clear her crop.
Also, I’ve read a lot of the forum on how to switch from seeds to pellets, but nothing seems to work. If anyone has had a stubborn conure like mine and was successful in switching them to pellets please let me know what you did and I will try it out.