White droppings! Please help.
Posted: Thu Mar 14, 2019 4:55 am
Hi everyone,
I have recently bought 12 zebra finches from a breeder. (4 weeks) He was keeping them in an aviary outside.
I noticed one of the male finches was acting weird last week. He was sitting at the bottom of the cage, spending a lot of time in the food dish, and had weird droppings. I separated it from the rest and is now in it's solo cage in a warm room. I have been giving it ACV and do not have any other medications on hand.
The poop has a solid white (or pale yellow) part and a transparent liquid part. It is also very big. He also has lost some feathers around the neck (could have been because of other finches) and seems very small and thin. The crop seems to bulge a little when he eats seeds, and he seems to be always hungry. He has been more active since I moved it to the hospital cage, if I stand near him he acts like he wants me to give him something by jumping towards me. If I feed him some veggies the poop becomes a little greener. Other than ACV and some veggies he gets white millet and finch seeds, sometimes egg with egg shells.
I looked on many different websites and could not find any information about his problem. I am very worried that it is some bacterial or parasite infection and the other finches could have it too. They are nesting now and have eggs so it would be bad if they pass it on. Maybe something that was dormant and became active due to changing environments and stress.
Here is a short video of him today https://streamable.com/akbg9
I have recently bought 12 zebra finches from a breeder. (4 weeks) He was keeping them in an aviary outside.
I noticed one of the male finches was acting weird last week. He was sitting at the bottom of the cage, spending a lot of time in the food dish, and had weird droppings. I separated it from the rest and is now in it's solo cage in a warm room. I have been giving it ACV and do not have any other medications on hand.
The poop has a solid white (or pale yellow) part and a transparent liquid part. It is also very big. He also has lost some feathers around the neck (could have been because of other finches) and seems very small and thin. The crop seems to bulge a little when he eats seeds, and he seems to be always hungry. He has been more active since I moved it to the hospital cage, if I stand near him he acts like he wants me to give him something by jumping towards me. If I feed him some veggies the poop becomes a little greener. Other than ACV and some veggies he gets white millet and finch seeds, sometimes egg with egg shells.
I looked on many different websites and could not find any information about his problem. I am very worried that it is some bacterial or parasite infection and the other finches could have it too. They are nesting now and have eggs so it would be bad if they pass it on. Maybe something that was dormant and became active due to changing environments and stress.
Here is a short video of him today https://streamable.com/akbg9