Green poop, should I be worried?

Ezekiell · Nov 27, 2019

I came home today, got Maui out of his cage and he gifted me a poop present. Problem is it was middling lime green, and I’ve never seen that before.

I weigh him daily and he’s been sitting on 150g and today was no different. Today he didn’t eat as much out of the foragers, but he has eaten all his chop (kale, carrot, cauliflower, quinoa, brown rice, oat, brocolli, chilli, capsicum). I can see that he ate some of the green capsicum and cucumber that was in his foragers.
He’s still happily bouncing around and is now eating a blueberry and a jalepeno for his afternoon snack.

I’m currently impatiently waiting for the next poo to compare.

In the meantime, should I be worried? Or is this a normal poo just coloured from what he ate?

LaManuka · Nov 28, 2019

Unfortunately I don’t know from caique poop, but my Fang and Val eat pellets with green leafy vegetables and broccolini and their poop is bright green, and their doctor is pretty happy with it.

What were the follow up poops like?

bill_e · Nov 28, 2019

Poop can vary so much depending on what they eat, time of day etc that you really need to look at a few of them.

Personally the one in the pic would not cause me any concern especially considering what he ate. It looks a little wet which is why it splattered. Best to check poop in the cage where gravity is less of an issue.

noodles123 · Nov 28, 2019

Is it normal for him to have no white (urates)? Sometimes a stressful situation can trigger a weird poop or 2. If it continues to look odd for him, I would take him to the vet (you know your bird's poop). When my bird eats watermelon or blackberries, it changes her poop color to a scary red/purple lol. It definitely could be food-related, but you would probably know if he ate something new that could result in poop different from his normal color.

Scott · Nov 28, 2019

That is definitely atypical, but context is needed. Poop varies considerably depending on what was recently eaten. If not "normal" with a quick change of diet for comparison, may signal an illness requiring veterinary consult.

Ezekiell · Nov 28, 2019

Thanks for all the advice.
There was normal poos in his cage bottom, and I fed him some blueberries and pellets after he did that one because I know that that makes a more solid black coloured poop - which is what happened an hour later. The next poo after the green one was his usual one. And I guess importantly the big one this morning is normal.

He does have urates but he doesn't produce a lot, and when he’s been eating wet things it all tends to get mixed together. There was white under the green when I wiped it up.

I’d just never seen that colour since I brought him home and it kinda freaked me out.

Green poop, should I be worried?

Ezekiell

New member

Attachments

LaManuka

Moderator

bill_e

Supporting Member

noodles123

Well-known member

Scott

Supporting Member

Ezekiell

New member

Wilton Cookware

Cockatiel one eye closed

Most Reactions

Similar threads

Latest posts