dirty vent

[julibear97]

heyy im new and have a couple concerns.....so i purchased a new budgie saturday night its a girl MAYSILEE and i bought it from a local petstore....she looked like my old budgie that sadly passed away and she kinda pulled my heart strings a bit i already have a special bond with her and i want to keep her with my for all of her budgie years so the problem is her dirty vent wich thankfully i cleaned just a bit stained thats it she just did a poopie kinda happy the first one ive seen thsi whole time she also just started eating millet and seed to ;D the is a bit runny but i just better than nothing?? i hope im doing everything yes ima bit of a freak when it come to my animald healt shes sleeping now anything i can do for the runny and she hasnt drank water either well thx

PEETA,KATNISS&MAYSILEE

[Hezz]

Juli, it takes a while for a new budgie to feel settled and comfortable in a new place and new owner, probably new food, new cage.......everything is different and that is a stressful situation for anyone, but especially for a budgie. One sympton of stress is runny poops. Only worry about the poop if it doesn't right itself once the budgie has settled in, which in some cases can take up to a couple of weeks.

The same goes for seeing her drink. Many times we get the same question from new owners.....I haven't seen my bird drink and I have had it x days now. Drinking seems to be a vulnerable time for budgies, so they wait until you, or anyone else around, is out of the room, or you have covered them up for the night. Again, once the bird is settled and comfortable with her surroundings she will be comfortable enough to have a drink while you are there. So don't sweat the drinking or the runny poops until the bird is at home in it's new enviroment.

But I have to ask, is she in quarantine?