While it is true that birds create poop that looks different from human poop, bird poop can look green and even have white on it, a bird pooping poop that is red is quite odd.
This article is a look into why your bird’s poop is red
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Why is my bird’s poop red?
Birds can’t talk to us, and they can’t help us figure out what is going on with them, but they don’t really need to talk to us, we can tell how our birds are doing by looking at their appearance and poop
Red poop is definitely one thing that signals that something is going on with your bird, this may be why your bird is producing red poop:
It’s something they ate:
One thing that determines what your birds poop looks like is the bird’s diet. If your bird’s poop changes to a red color after you’ve given your bird a diet change don’t be alarmed.
If you’re giving your bird red berries for a while, then don’t be alarmed if your bird’s poop starts looking red.
What to do:
If you know that your bird’s diet has recently changed then remove the newly added red foods from your bird’s diet and see how the bird’s poop looks after this.
If the poop goes back to normal after the change then you have nothing to worry about.
Foreign bodies in the bird’s GI tract:
Birds can be quite curious but this isn’t always a good thing. Your bird may have eaten a foreign object and this could have caused bleeding which made your bird’s poop look red.
The foreign object may have cut the insides of the bird and this would have resulted in internal bleeding, and blood coming out with your bird’s poop.
Issues with egg laying:
Egg laying may be common in birds but that doesn’t mean that complications can’t develop. Complications can develop if the bird is new to egg laying or the egg is large and difficult to pass
If the egg cracks in the bird’s body, then the sharp edges of the eggshell may have cut the bird’s insides and caused internal bleeding.
Another issue that has to do with egg laying is straining too much. If your bird is straining too much then all this straining could result in blood coming out of the cloaca along with the bird’s feces.
Ulcers:
Ulcers affect a variety of humans and animals, and they may have affected your pet bird as well.
If an ulcer developed in your bird’s stomach, and eroded the bird’s stomach into a blood vessel, then that blood vessel may start to bleed and let blood come out with the bird’s stool.
Cancer:
This is another illness that can cause internal bleeding in your birds and cause blood to come out along with your bird’s poop.
The bird’s cancer may have started to bleed and this blood may have traveled down to the bird’s digestive tract and come out with the bird’s poop making the poop red.
What to do:
While the change in diet may have been something that you could have addressed at home, the other reasons for the bleeding need to be treated by a vet.
Before you take the bird to the vet it is recommended that you collect a stool sample from the bird.
Leaving white paper towels at the bottom of your bird’s cage is a simple way to do this. The bird will poop on the paper towels and you can take these paper towels to the vet when you visit
The vet will examine the sample that you bring them, will physically examine the bird, will ask you questions about any other symptoms you’ve noticed, and will run tests on the bird.
Tests that the vet may run include a biochemistry profile and fecal tests.
Once a diagnosis has been given your bird will be given treatment for its condition.
Your vet will treat the bird’s underlying condition if they can. If the issue was the ingestion of a foreign object then surgery may be necessary
Once the bird has been treated and has recovered, you can take the bird home and the birds poop will go back to normal
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