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I was wondering if any of you feed your birds Roudybush Rice Pellet Diet??

The reason I am asking is because 2 or 3 weeks ago I bought her some as a treat and she loved them. Around the same time she started having black poops. I didn't connect the two with one another. I called to make her a dr appt and by the time they took her in later that day her poops were good light creamy colored poops. The dr done a gram stain and said she looked fine and there was no reason to put her on an antibiotic or anything.

Well the black poops continued to come and go. I took her in again about a week and a half later and they done blood work. Thank god all her results came back normal with the exception of her having low calcium but I put calcium powder in her pellets daily.

It has been 6 or 7 days since she has had any black poops. Last night she ate alot of Rice Pellets for Dinner because I didn't give her, her Harrisons Muffin along with her other dinner items. Well this morning she had a black morning poop and has continued to have them so far (it's been 2 hours now).

I don't know that it's the rice pellets. I am just trying to think of every thing that it can possibly be that is causing this. I am trying to rule out stuff and question everything in her diet that this can be caused by.

I did call Roudybush and they said that it couldn't be the pellets and that they had not heard of this from anyone. BUT I don't know if they would admit if someone else had this happen to them and I also just want to know if anyone who uses them may have had this happen.