Iodine question, by 2birds

[2birds]

I am new and can not figure out how to make a new thread, so I figured it would be best to ask my iodine question here. I am searching Google and can't find much on it. What does too much iodine do to budgies? My female budgie chews the idodine block, cuttle bone and mineral blocks in the cage. Not due to deficiency. I just put in a new idodine block yesterday and she continues to chew that one. Last night and today I noticed that she has watery green poops. Is this a sign of too much iodine? I am thinking I need to pull the iodine block out for a bit.

[Hezz]

I've moved your question to its own thread. While I doubt your hen is eating much of the blocks that she is destroying - this is a hen thing, they are the masters of destruction - and I very much doubt that she can overdose on any of the ingredients, make sure that she has plenty of other things to destroy in her cage, things like small pieces of balsa wood or soft pine chunks, paddlepop sticks, dolly pegs etc. Budgie hens have very busy beaks and keeping her occupied will help keep her stimulated. It wouldn't hurt to remove the blocks for a few days, more to move her focus onto other things than for any other reason.

The watery, off-colour droppings may well be from her chewing the blocks, possibly to the detriment of actually eating any real food, and also drinking more water.