My green cheek conure has greenish blue type poop

[monosphere]

We had taken her to a vet one month ago but they said the parrot is just a bit underweight and also gave calcium medicine. We are giving the calcium regularly and we also changed her seed diet by giving a different fruit or vegetables everyday but this won't suffice.but she has yellow feathers all over on her green coat and recently the poop quality also changed.yet I don't see any other symptoms of illness hence I am confused what to do next

 

[T. gillii]

First question would be if there are any blue colored toys in her cage? Also any photos of her feather condition

 

[Shezbug]

Coloured toys and foods can make a difference to poop colour so we tend to try to rule those out first.

 

[Pixiebeak]

I would need more information.
But green urates and low weight are a classic symptoms of avian clymadia, a bacteria infection that your vet would need to diagnose and provide doxycycline for 45 days if it was that .

Green urates can indicate liver inflammation, or infection, and or starvation as well , plus other things

What is he currently eating in a day ? Are you weighing him ? If you took away seeds completely then you took a lot of calories away . Abd while veggies and limited fruit are great they also aren't a complete diet . They would need some leguem, grain, or seed or pellets. If you are trying to go all fresh whole foods , it still has to have a balance of protein, fats, carbs, fiber and meet vitamin needs. I find that a little more challenging, so mine have pellets ,a little tiny bit of boiled egg, a tiny amount of nuts and some seeds in addition to lots lots and lots of veggies and limited fruit, the important part is those foods are actually eaten by mine . did is important, complex and a topic of ebdless discussion for us as we all try and get right admist differing recommendations. But in the end any diet must meet the needs of carbs, fats, protein, fiber, vitamin and minerals. I really don't know the % break down of those for our birds.

I would line bottom of cage with news paper and change daily. First morning poop can be very green and thst is normal it's from fasting overnight and build up of bile acid. Inky evaluate other than first morning poop.

 

[monosphere]

There are certain feathers that are blackened at tip and some are yellow and we have been feeding her mangoes coriander sprouts apple grapes guava seeds but any if these is one time per day, the rest is sunflower seed only and the vet said that she is underweight but slightly currently I don't know her weight as we don't have a weighing machine and she only has a few beads in her toys that are blue in color

 

[monosphere]

The doctor has also prescribed a multivitamin supplement but she refuses to drink it and said there is nothing wrong with her. They also said that the feathers appear a bit dull and so give her calcium supplement in water and she is absolutely ok drinking that water

 

[Pixiebeak]

Her diet is a mess , thst isn't a complete balanced healthy diet . I'm pretty sure her symptoms could all be diet related.

The part of her diet that is seeds need to be a conure seed mix ,there need to more than just sunflower seeds. Most seed mixes have limited sunflower seeds and includes pumpkin seeds, squash seeds, mullet, safflower and others.

Fruits should not be so sugary and only about 10% of her daily intake. Some mango is ok that's a good fruit. Other Fruits that are a better choice blueberries, blackberry, pomegranate, plum minis pit, fresh cherry minus pit..a little apple here and there is fine but grapes really only as a treat .

A lot of veggies. Peppers of any kind , mine love red chili peppers, and bell peppers they can eat th seeds if peppers as well. Sweet potatoes, cooked or raw, squashes , leafy green lettuces like romaine, swiss chard, human grade dandelion greens and others , broccoli, carrots, peas, a little fresh corn, green beans, . There are many parrot safe veggies lists easy found by searching include ad much as you can , rotate what you offer. Expect a lot of waste , expect it make take time to learn these are yummy. Do not give up !

A little scrambled or boiled egg a few times a week . I like to mince veggies in the pan and warm and soften then add my eggs to make scrambled eggs with veggies to offer . And I mince in all kinds , carrot , sweet potato, broccoli, peppers, kale , swiss chard.

You can also offer a little cooked quinoa, or lentils or soaked and cooked leguem. Sprouts are great , get into sprouting.

Look through this thread and be inspired! My parrots love love love their veggies, even parrots I got that started out as seed eaters only , it just takes time

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[Pixiebeak]

The doctor has also prescribed a multivitamin supplement but she refuses to drink it and said there is nothing wrong with her. They also said that the feathers appear a bit dull and so give her calcium supplement in water and she is absolutely ok drinking that water

My GCC is also in the cinnamon mutation family and her colors are softer and muted . But those feathers in your bird the yellow / tan mixed in her green ones , are again a sign of liver inflammation and diet deficiency . The liver can become inflamed from fatty diets or deficiency in diet , and or infection.

 

[sb sigmund]

I second @Pixiebeak you will want to give her a veriety of fruits, vegetables, grains, and pellets every day. Seeds should be a treat only. When I fostered two GCC's they liked grapes, carrots, quinoa, and broccolli.

 

[Pixiebeak]

I second @Pixiebeak you will want to give her a veriety of fruits, vegetables, grains, and pellets every day. Seeds should be a treat only. When I fostered two GCC's they liked grapes, carrots, quinoa, and broccolli.

You can't just pull seeds cold turkey. You would have to transition to a replacement of those calories, carbs and fats . Many people choose pellets because they are a balanced nutrition. I'm ok personally with a seed mix as long as over half their diet is veggies and such as in they are actually eating those . Here mine don't get seed mix till the end of the day , they start out with their veggies and pellets. Many people have starved their birds by going cold turkey, and even caused starvation in those who are eating vegetables but aren't balancing that fresh food with protein foods and some fats . We have to be careful when we are trying to do good , that we understand all the components needed in a diet . Again that why many people lean on their pellets because they are formulated to meet those needs . But a parrot must be transitioned to them . Because even if they start eating some pellets they may not be eating enough ( at first ) to maintain body weight .
You need to weigh a bird you are transitioning, or be very good at feeling keel and poop watch gir volume of fecal matter in poop and frequency of poops. A digital kitchen scale is an easy and cheap way to track weight .

 

[monosphere]

Are you sure that this disease can be cured by diet only and did your GCC experienced the same thing before as my bird has now coz we cant trust on what google says. I a m here if someone has gone thru the same then they might help. I am confused because the vet said that everything's ok and thank you for your diet recommendations will definitely try.and one more thing whenever we only give her other type of food she can starve for a meal but only eat little so I'm order to ensure she eats atleast something we need to conclude withe sunflower seeds so any idea how to stop that

 

[Pixiebeak]

Your birds current diet is certainly playing a role and needs to be addressed. Your bird could also have a secondary health issues, like a bacterial infection.

My green cheek conure i got as a weened young bird, and I started her out in a healthy diet ,of veggies, pellets, and some seeds. She has never had discoloration of feathers.
She did have avian clymadia and thst caused bright green urates and weight loss . She was treated for that with doxycycline 2 rounds of 45 days treatments and became healthy and normal weight again. Once she had a yeast infection, that caused weight loss and was treated and became healthy again back to normal weight. I have had around 12 years , so different things have come up.


I took in an old quaker that only ate sunflowers seed, she had fatty liver and yellow tinged feathers , low vitamin A. It took time and effort to get her eating healthy foods. I got her eating some veggies in her first few weeks with me , but it took nearly 2 years for veggies to become the bulk of her diet pellets she ate some like a few , so those were snuck in by adding them ground up or soaked to a bunch of other stuff she ate , I added them to scrambled eggs, to cooked oatmeal and quinoa, to steamed and minced veggies a d soak and serve , I made birdie muffins and had pellets in those as well . Her feathers became beautiful and normal her liver inflammation went way down . Her diet was realistically 50% ( or more fresh veggies, and little fruit and such ) around 35% seeds and the rest snuck in or eaten pellets

Most of the parrots I have taken were prior seed eaters only . All now love their veggies.

 

[sb sigmund]

You can't just pull seeds cold turkey. You would have to transition to a replacement of those calories, carbs and fats . Many people choose pellets because they are a balanced nutrition. I'm ok personally with a seed mix as long as over half their diet is veggies and such as in they are actually eating those . Here mine don't get seed mix till the end of the day , they start out with their veggies and pellets. Many people have starved their birds by going cold turkey, and even caused starvation in those who are eating vegetables but aren't balancing that fresh food with protein foods and some fats . We have to be careful when we are trying to do good , that we understand all the components needed in a diet . Again that why many people lean on their pellets because they are formulated to meet those needs . But a parrot must be transitioned to them . Because even if they start eating some pellets they may not be eating enough ( at first ) to maintain body weight .
You need to weigh a bird you are transitioning, or be very good at feeling keel and poop watch gir volume of fecal matter in poop and frequency of poops. A digital kitchen scale is an easy and cheap way to track weight .

Yes, thank you for the correction. Diet conversion is a process and every bird has different preferences.

 

[Pixiebeak]

Are you sure that this disease can be cured by diet only and did your GCC experienced the same thing before as my bird has now coz we cant trust on what google says. I a m here if someone has gone thru the same then they might help. I am confused because the vet said that everything's ok and thank you for your diet recommendations will definitely try.and one more thing whenever we only give her other type of food she can starve for a meal but only eat little so I'm order to ensure she eats atleast something we need to conclude withe sunflower seeds so any idea how to stop that

I have said from the beginning your bird can have an infection. I will look back , because I think I stated avain clymadia as possibility in my first response.

The diet is so bad , that it could also cause all these symptoms, fatty liver , nutritional deficiency. Nutrition also plays a huge role in immune system.

So is this one or the other or a combination. I don't know. I would see an avain veterinarian if it was my bird .
I can only stress so many times that a sunflower only as main diet component isn't going to cut it , is going to cause malnutrition and health issues. Putting vitamin
S in the water can cause the water to grow bacteria, mold yeast , or overdose. It's not something I would ever recommend. Unless under guidance of you avian veterinarian.