This may not belong in the 911 but I haven't heard of this before....and I am a little panicky....
I was cleaning up Kita's poop I noticed that there were little tan specs that are hard as a rock.......... I was freaking out thinking PDD.... but Kita was tested for it (ABV) last August and was negative, and has not been around any other birds except Anna, and Anna tested negative for abv in 2009 and she hasn't been around any other birds except for Kita......
Kita shows no changes in behavior, no weight change, no appetite or activity changes.... at all..... we had company all day yesterday so after they left last night I studied her poops and the flecks of tan are hard and look like the little nut shavings that are all over the bottom of her cage.... so then I thought that the nuts shavings are falling on the poop...... but nope, I waited for a fresh sample and studied it..... it has these little specs all in the poop.....and it really looks like the nutshell pieces in the bottom of her cage.....Otherwise.... her poops are perfect....
So... I am sitting with her and watching her..... she is taking almonds and cracking them and spitting out the nut meat and chewing up the shell... most of it seems to be falling to the ground....
Then I pick her up and she grabs my finger and starts bobbing to regurg on it and I let her do it just so I could see what came out and there were little nut pieces......she was definitely regurging and not vomiting....she is also laying eggs again started last Sunday.....
I have removed all of the nuts from her reach.......
I will be calling the AV 1st thing tomorrow.... just wondering what the heck
I was cleaning up Kita's poop I noticed that there were little tan specs that are hard as a rock.......... I was freaking out thinking PDD.... but Kita was tested for it (ABV) last August and was negative, and has not been around any other birds except Anna, and Anna tested negative for abv in 2009 and she hasn't been around any other birds except for Kita......
Kita shows no changes in behavior, no weight change, no appetite or activity changes.... at all..... we had company all day yesterday so after they left last night I studied her poops and the flecks of tan are hard and look like the little nut shavings that are all over the bottom of her cage.... so then I thought that the nuts shavings are falling on the poop...... but nope, I waited for a fresh sample and studied it..... it has these little specs all in the poop.....and it really looks like the nutshell pieces in the bottom of her cage.....Otherwise.... her poops are perfect....
So... I am sitting with her and watching her..... she is taking almonds and cracking them and spitting out the nut meat and chewing up the shell... most of it seems to be falling to the ground....
Then I pick her up and she grabs my finger and starts bobbing to regurg on it and I let her do it just so I could see what came out and there were little nut pieces......she was definitely regurging and not vomiting....she is also laying eggs again started last Sunday.....
I have removed all of the nuts from her reach.......
I will be calling the AV 1st thing tomorrow.... just wondering what the heck