Regurgitating

[Weasel]

Well, for the second time in three days Bob has thrown up his meal. I am awaiting a phone call from our raptor vet right now, but the story is this...I fed him a very large crop on monday night as I was not planning to fly him for the rest of the week and the next day when I awoke, he had several pieces of regurgitated rabbit at the base of his perch in my livingroom. I attributed it to having too full a crop. That night I fed him a live Gerbil that I had left over from trapping and he digested it fine. Next day he cast and all was well. That night, I fed him the second Gerbil I had and he ate it fine. This afternoon, I get a call from my girlfriend that he puked up all of the gerbil and that it smelled really putrid from across the room. Now, going from the desciption of what she says, I cannot be sure if that is sour crop as I am not there to visually ID the contents and give it a sniff myself, but he is acting completely normal. No signs of weekness as of last night and he is still, as far as I can tell, still acting normal since I heard him bating away from my GF as usual while I was on the phone with her. I will more than likely take him into the vets tonight just to be sure nothing is wrong.

[Falcon Boy]

Good luck, let us know what becomes of it.

[CaliforniaFalconer]

Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about it - I've never smelled pleasant-smelling regurgetated food ! lol As long as you didn't feed him the gerbil while there was still food in his crop,you should be fine.

[raptrlvr]

I am not a vet, but, it certainly sounds like sour crop. Years ago I had a RT do the same thing and she was fine. It sure had me worried for a while.

[Austin]

Baking soda a couple of times works well for sour crop. A small amount on the very tip of a normal size sSpoon mixed in a halh pint of water. Use a sringe and get at least two table sSpoons of water into the crop once a day for about three days should solve the problem. Also sometimes if you over feed and the bird is in a warm place it will not digest the food quick enough and the food begins to rot in the crop so the bird by nature will vommit the food. You need to get it out of the mew or area because they will eat it again later. Another thing I do is worm my bird both spring and fall just to be safe that there are no crop worms. As far as round worms it is very hard to elimate all of them so the medicine I use will kill both crop worms and round worms, and will usually take care of any other internal worm commonly known.

[Weasel]

He is fine now. I talked with our Raptor vet and he said to not feed it for 24 hours, give it a 50/50 mix of pepto and water and make sure he has access to fresh water. I waited the 24 and fed his 30g of quail breast meat with no casting material and he passed it fine.
Cheers,
Weasel