Droppings with no feces?

[mycousinvinny]

Around three months ago I adopted a 6 year old sun conure from my brother who had to move overseas and couldn't keep him. After doing some research, I found out that my the seed diet the bird was on was horrible and have now started to transition the conure to pellets. I have slowly introduced pellets into the diet and would slowly increase the pellet per seed ratio as I noticed the bird begin to eat more of them.



For the past week I have noticed that sporadically my bird is having very watery droppings that contain little to no feces in them. This will happen a couple of times per day with his other dropping appearing normal and healthy. I have not changed his pellet to seed ratio in over a month, and he appears to be eating the same amount as he has since I got him. The feces will be very watery and then other times if will be completely normal. I have not noticed any changes in the bird's behavior recently.



I included some picture of the droppings below. I appreciate the help. Really took a liking to this little guy and just hope he's ok.

 

[bill_e]

Have you perchance been feeding any fruit? If I feed Nike any juicy fruit she has a watery movement or two.

 

[charmedbyekkie]

Hmm, a few initial thoughts would be:

- did he bathe/shower before these poops?
- did he drink excessive amounts of water before these poops?
- did he eat something watery beforehand (fruit, mash, etc)?
- does he have constant access to food?

IF it's not a health issue, it's really a matter of whether he had a lot of fluid intake (hence increased urine) or he did not have a lot of food (hence decreased faeces).

If I were you, I would send these pics to your avian vet, explaining the situation, and ask them if it's worth coming in for a faecalysis.

 

[bigfellasdad]

You need to monitor how much your bird is eating/drinking, Enzo will have poops/wees like that after she has enjoyed a morning cup of tea. She will already have had her first 'huge' poop so to be expected, she has her tea then has her breakfast some time later.

 

[mycousinvinny]

Thanks for the responses! I do feed him fresh fruit and veggies (apple, broccoli, peppers, blue berries, peas, ect.) but I do not really notice a correlation. I'll try and keep a better eye. He does have access to food all day. I leave out his dish with pellets and seed along with a skewer that has his fruit and veggies. I am currently trying to bathe him everyday with a sprayer because on his own he will bathe about every three days.

 

[bigfellasdad]

I am currently trying to bathe him everyday with a sprayer because on his own he will bathe about every three days.

you are lucky, my dusty girl will go weeks left to her own devices