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Poopy question.....

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honey61

Mama Doe
Teddi is producing an odd combination of poops ..... Large perfect golden poops interspersed with tiny black individual 'chips' which are sometimes hard & other times softer (not grape bunches) :?

No recent change in diet to account for this .... fresh veggies & minimal Excel pellets... (which he's not overly keen on as he preferred Russell rabbit which was what he was on when he first came home.)

He is constantly hungry, asking for food & also a good hay eater.

I'm flummoxed .... any ideas please?
 
Excel pellets are known to cause poop issues somtimes.

DO you have any Science Selective pellets?

The black 'chips' you talk of sound like individual parts from a caeco?
 
GrahamL said:
Excel pellets are known to cause poop issues somtimes.

DO you have any Science Selective pellets?

The black 'chips' you talk of sound like individual parts from a caeco?
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I did wonder that.... but they are passed literally minutes sometimes after golden ones.... & look very dried out, although not rock hard.... most bizzare

Have tried SS.... he refuses to eat them... perhaps because of his head tilt he finds them difficult to eat, even though I break them up smaller :?

I know RR isn't the best choice.... but perhaps it suited him better ... not sure whether to put him back on that & see if the chips disappear again :?
 
I use a mix of Allen and Page and Wagg Bunny Brunch pellets for mine, which they all seem to enjoy and hasn't caused any tummy issues yet.
 
Badger gets that when he is hovering on cecal dysbiosis but not quite there yet. We've sorted them out with Pro Fibre pro biotic pellets alongside SS.
 
Thank you peeps :D

Think I'll try him back on the RR with Pro Fibre & see if that helps things improve.
Bless him, he's got enough issues without adding upset tum to the list.

Thanks again :D
 
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