by Pajarita » Tue Jan 07, 2020 9:31 am
Welcome to the forum - and isn't it a trip how we worry all the time about our birds?! Now, this doesn't look like vomit to me (vomit is kind of concentrated in one spot, not splattered all over the place - and there would be much more of it). It looks like food splattered - at least, that's what the back of my birds cages look pretty much all the time (I clean it in the morning but there is always more once they eat their breakfast). What did you feed her the day before or that same day? Does she get colored pellets? Or a seed mix where some of the seeds have coloring on them or maybe little pieces of dry fruit? Red grapes? Apple with the red skin still on? Cherries? Some other thing that is red like red Swiss Chard, for example? Because, when we freak out, our minds go blank and we kind of stop thinking... Just two days ago, I saw a poop with what looked like bloody urine around it - I knew it was from Keku Quaker because it was in the spot where she always perches while I am at the computer (she comes and gloes flying all over the place but she has three spots where she likes to perch 'to keep me company' while I am at the computer and this was one of them) so I looked at her and she was OK (clean vent, alert, very active, etc) so I decided to keep my eye on her and see if she was chewing on any of the Christmas decorations I still have out (because I had found Annie GCC chewing on some of them). Then I found another bloody poop and I freaked out big time! So I stopped, took a few deep breaths and closing my eyes, started thinking hard - and then I remembered that, that same morning, they had gotten red Swiss Chard as their green of the day - and she is a big greens eater - and I do mean BIG! She had been eating the red stalks and two hours later, like clock work, she was pooping them. Mystery solved! So think carefully what she was eating that day, look around the room or rooms where she comes out to fly and see if there is anything red that she could have chewed on and look at whatever she has in the cage (could there be newspaper that has a picture with red on it at the bottom?). And, if you don't find anything, keep a close eye on her and, if it happens again, take her to the vet.