Suddenly he refuses to eat

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Hey there!

 I'm really worried about my lil' chicken because he did not eat much today. I opened a new bag of food from the same type he's been eating for months now, but he jumped down 2 times to it, ate a few seeds, shook his head and went back sleeping. He was all energetic today, kinda' a little tense because randomly bit me 3 times (lol out of the blue really, he never does that so randomly only if I don't respect his private sphere when he asks me to, but we were watching a sparrow from my window and he was like OH YOU SO ANNOYING and bit me, while usually we are watching sparrows quite peacefully). So he started pooping very watery, but he truly didn't eat anything. Makes no sense, this is the food he's been eating for months now, and suddenly starting a new bag makes him go "eww"? Also note that he is molting, but didn't have problems with eating seeds from the old bag these past days. I'm a little worried because he is sleeping a little more than usual. Maybe he haven't had a good time sleeping last night, but I'm very paranoid when it comes to his health because all his partners died in the past 2 years so I'm very anxious when I see him fluff up and stuff, can't help but think of the worst. But he never had health issues, and he didn't make any contact with birds or anything, he's alone and nothing changed except this stupid unopened bag of seed which has an expiration date set on 2021.



I'm so worried and confused and I really don't even know what could be the problem, but if any of you met something like this, please let me know what can I do apart from spending my time before my hardest exam in this period with paranoidly watching my one little sunshine and worrying about idon'tknowwhat.

[Hezz]

If you are prepared to ditch the bag of seed, that is what I would do. Do you have any of the old bag left and will he eat that now? If he will eat the old food fine but not the new, then to me that says contaminated and get rid of it. If you aren't prepared to ditch the bag you can wash the seed in F10, rinse, dry and then feed. He still may not eat it. Moulting can cause them to be off colour, grumpy and affect their appetite and poop. A lot of what you describe can be put down to a bad moult, and if you can get another bag of seed easily then do so and not take the risk. If there is more going on then just being a little di*k because he is moulting and the seed is the problem, get more seed, preferably with a different best-by date than the one he won't eat. If he eats that, then good. If not, I'd get him some other seed mix and try him with different options, with a vet visit on the cards if he still stays off his food.

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Alright, I totally forgot to keep you updated. Everything is perfectly normal, only I was a little suspicious that day I guess. I put him rather early to sleep into another room so that he could rest in silence while I was studying and stuff. Few hours later I took him back to my room and he started eating like a starving lion. So after all, it was not the food, just a rough night. Next day he was perfectly normal, no more biting, peaceful sparrow-watchings and stuff.
However thank you really for the advice, I'll keep them in mind if anything occurs in the future.
Thanks in Cinnamon's name too.
Take care.

[Hezz]

Glad everything is alright at this time. It can be confronting when they suddenly throw a different scenario up at us.