A question for Bea for my budgie

[mimi]

Hi Bea,

I read your response and my budgie has the same problem. I would like to know what kind of medicine you gave to your budgie.

Thank you.

Bea05-18-2006, 05:31 PM
If it's a lot of poop that's a sign of sickness because in a healthy budgie they just drop. I had a budgie with this problem once and she needed to be medicated.

[Budgiekin]

Is your budgie a male or female? How old is he/she?

Sometimes budgies with the same symptoms have totally different medical problems so they cannot be treated with the same medication. I would encourage you to bring your sweetie to an avian vet to get a fecal gram stain test and possibly some blood work if you think he/she is ill.

You can look up avian vets here:

http://www.aav.org/vet-lookup/

[avril]

1 Does he/she have large poops all the time.

2 Do they have an unusal smell

3 Is he/she going into a nesting box

4 Is he/she drooping or hunching down in one spot

As Budgiekin said not all symptons that are the same for someone else's budgie as your have the same illness, so your best bet is to take your little one to an Avian Vet and get it checked out.

[Joey]

When females are breeding there droppings get larger and they use the nest box constantly....about 5 days before they lay eggs the poops get larger and larger abot 10 budgie poops and they dodnt stop until they are done laying eggs

[mimi]

Thank you for all of you.
My bird is a female. I did take her to an Avian Vet two times. It cost me more than $200, but my bird is getting worse, she started lost weight from 41g-36g from last five days, and more water showed in her dropping and dropping is very long. Luckily she still eats and drinks well. I have no idea what I should do next. Any suggestion?

Reply to Avril:
1. She has large poops since June 20 until now. Now more water in her poops.
2. I did not find an unusal smell.
3. No.
4. No.

[Budgiekin]

If I understand you correctly, you have not taken her to a vet since she showed signs of illness (i.e. the long and watery droppings and weight loss)? I assume the $200 you spent was for something else that is unrelated to her current problem?

Is it the outer fecal portion of the dropping that is watery, or is it the inner urine/urate portion? If it is the outer greenish/brownish fecal portion that is watery, then your budgie has diarrhea and would need to be seen by an avian vet since an infection of some kind is likely. If it is the inner whitish urine/urate portion that is watery, your budgie has likely just been consuming more water, or more foods that contain a fair amount of water.

Is your female budgie's cere a dark chocolately brown or is it more like a light tan colour? Has she been exhibiting any signs of brooding? (an example of that kind of behaviour is rubbing her vent area on toys or food cups...another example is crawling around under the paper on the bottom of the cage...

This site has some pretty good information on budgie droppings:
http://www.birds-online.de/gesundheit/gesallgemein/indikatorkot_en.htm

Let us know how she is doing!:p

[mimi]

1. The two times I took my bird to a vet are last Saturday(July 15) and yesterday (July 20).
2. I did not see any signs of brooding.
3. The following is the picture I found from web, it is same as my bird dropping but sometimes water is light yellow color from my bird dropping. I did not feed her any fruit and green at least 2 weeks.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/Beefball/DSC00272.jpg

4. My budgie's cere more like a light tan colour.
Thank

[Budgiekin]

That dropping looks ok. Yes the center portion is runny, but that is not diarrhea. Your sweetie just may be drinking more water than usual. I would just keep an eye on her and watch for other signs that may indicate illness, like lack of appetite, droppings that are a different colour than usual, droppings that have a runny outer portion, lethargy, sitting fluffed up or change in activity level. From what you say, she is eating normally and she is still very active. I wouldn't be too concerned for the time being. :p