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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.

I noticed Luna's poop was a bit darker when she ate pellets - she ate very few and we had to hand feed them to her (I loved that little stinker!) I have also read a pellet diet would give a very dark poop.

Call the vets office and see what they think about it.

Jo

Hmmmm..that is interesting...perhaps it is because the pellets are a dry food(?) When birds are a bit dehydrated their poops are darker. I give Button the roudybush rice pellets and the only time she had the tarry black poops is when she was on a very strong antifungal med.I know when she used to eat the zupreme colored pellets she had 'colorful' poops.
Try not feeding her pellets for a bit and see if there is actually a correlation.

RM
Noodles poos are darker he is on roudybush pellets . His weights are stable at 102-104 daily (with it droping due to spring and molting)
His poos change when I feed him corn , peas , or even macaroni ..
The zon and the conure when they get on their kicks will poo purple or red , some times orange depending on the pellets they "wanted" They change when their foods change as long as she is eating and pooing fine I would not worry