Watery stool and eating own feces?

Crayfish066

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Lately I've noticed my IRN eating his own feces a lot and when he was outside his cage today he started doing watery ones.

Is this anything to be concerned about?
 

plumsmum2005

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Maybe a mineral deficiency? Do you feed pellets at all and watery poop could be from lots of fruit. List what you have been feeding please?

You could make a CAV appointment.
 
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LordTriggs

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for starters he shouldn't be eating his own poop

Watery poo is cause for concern. Time to make an appointment with an Avian vet
 

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Eating poops is very bad for your parrot, and means clean up after him quickly so he does not have a chance to. If he is not eating a lot of fruit, the water poops is also not a good sign and he should be seeing a Avian Certified Vet ASAP. If he has been eating a lot of fruit, his poops may be a bit watery, but I would be reducing the fruit and concentrating on fresh veggies and a good quality pellet.
 
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The poop seemed to become more firm pretty quickly, while he was still out of the cage infact.

He doesn't eat a lot of fruit, there's dried pieces in his food bowl but he doesn't show much interest in them. I gave him some cucumber a few days ago but he's just been eating his regular parrot food mix and millet since then.
 

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Lincoln use to eat his feces too. id stop him when I could and clean up etc but I never really found out why and nothing really came out of it, he just stopped.

Could this be a stress related behaviour? it was around when I first got him.
 

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