Diarrhoea/loose poo remedy needed

[Loz]

tweetiepiesmom makes a good point about regularly weighing your birds.
You can get a good indication whether all is well, or whether there is a possible issue through monitoring your birb's weight.

[ladybird]

Please don’t buy Trill, I know from experience that it is full of rubbish. I use budgie bravo…Bought from Haiths, and I know other members use it too….

[Hezz]

Sept 24, 2022 15:46:42 GMT chuckie said:

Sept 24, 2022 15:39:54 GMT @loz said:

I cannot advise in detail on pellets, I'm fortunate in not having needed to use them so far.
Others on the forum can help here, I believe!

Ok no worries. What do you feed your budgies then? I’m thinking of something along the lines of 50% sprouts, 25% chopped veg, 25% seeds. At the moment they’re probably eating 80% seed.

This sounds like a very good compromise to me. I think you could share the sprouts and veg ratio equally, but if at all possible look into growing or foraging for seeding grasses - any field, meadow, paddock, pasture grasses are edible but not ornamental grasses. These are a budgie’s natural, native food source and the very best thing you can feed them. Pellets don’t have a wide following on this forum, so recommending a particular brand may depend on what is available. Most pellets were developed with the rainforest parrots in mind, as I understand, and there have been much debate as to whether these do more harm than good in our desert-dwelling budgie population.

[chuckie]

Hi all, so seems the liver is the most likely issue though have only spoken to vets rather than been for an exam/diagnosis. Tweety’s beak is still growing rapidly and has needed a further trim since last update, and poos is still not right but soft rather than having a lot of liquid, the situation seems stable and behaviour still ok.

Switching foods is proving tricky as both birds seems to be being quite fussy about the sprouts/veg and strongly prefer seeds. However I’m interested in trying the recommendation of grasses. During the summer we let an area of our garden grow wild and brought in some seeding grass stalks and the budgies went crazy for it. Not sure what type of grass it was, it’s just a typical UK lawn, so not sure if that counts as ornamental? I can get some rye grass seeds or the other types mentioned, and grow them, but how long before they seed, it’s once a year, right? How about feeding the seeds directly, or just sprouting them? I presume the ones from a garden centre could have fertiliser/coatings on them so will certainly avoid that. Any other tips or resources for this?

[Hezz]

A good quality seed mix should sprout easily, I think you can even get bird seed sprouting packs, but really you can sprout whatever you like, human grade sprouts included.
People in UK do seem to have trouble getting seeding grasses due to your climate, but a little patch of lawn thrown over to seed and mixed in with wild bird seed left to grow, and anything of their own seed - throw it all in the patch and see what happens. There are different growing kits that you can get and maybe someone who uses them in the UK can help with what exactly they are and where to get them.