One of the ways that you can determine how healthy, or how unhealthy, your bird is is by taking a look at the bird’s poop. You’d rightly be alarmed if the bird’s poop starts to look different.
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Conure poop is red:
If you know what your conure’s poop is supposed to look like, and the bird’s poop suddenly starts to look much different than normal, if your bird’s poop starts to look red, you’d be right to be worried.
Here is why this may be happening:
Red foods:
How your bird’s poop looks is directly linked to what the bird is eating.
If your bird is eating a lot of pellets and seeds, then the bird’s poop will be brown. If the bird is eating lots of greens then the poop will be green, and if the bird is eating a lot of red-colored berries, then you can expect your bird’s poop to be red.
Your conure likely loves sweet foods like fruits and if your bird is given red berries, and is allowed to eat as much as it likes, then the bird will overeat this food and its poop will come out red.
What to do:
As much as this scenario can be alarming, it isn’t something that needs to be worried about, this is perfectly normal. Red poop in this case does not mean that your bird is ill or unhealthy.
If you want the bird’s poop to go back to its normal brown color then feed your birds fewer red berries and make sure that the bird has a well-balanced diet. This will get the bird’s poop back to looking brown.
Internal bleeding:
A dangerous reason why your bird’s poop is red may be because your bird has internal bleeding.
If the bird is suffering from internal bleeding then the blood may not fully digest while traveling through the bird’s digestive tract and the blood may come out with the bird poop resulting in red poop.
Causes of internal bleeding in your pet are vast, ailments that cause internal bleeding include cancer and ulcers.
If your bird’s cancer starts to bleed, or your conure’s ulcer causes internal bleeding then expect the bird to have red poop.
Your bird may also experience internal bleeding if it ingested a foreign object and the foreign object cut the bird from the inside causing internal bleeding.
A conure that is straining to lay an egg can also develop bleeding, and, if the egg were to crack in the bird’s body then this could cause internal bleeding as well.
Other causes of internal bleeding include infections as well as the ingestion of toxins.
What to do:
Trying to diagnose and then treat your bird yourself can be fruitless and can be dangerous for your bird. If the bird loses too much blood then it can die, taking your bird to the vet is the recommended solution.
If you can, collect a stool sample to give to the vet, this will be very helpful in helping the vet diagnose the bird.
In addition to examining the stool sample, the vet may also do a fecal test and a biochemistry profile on the bird.
Once the bird has been treated for its underlying issue its poop will go back to normal
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