Dehydrated baby Orange-Winged Amazon?

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Hi team,

2 days ago I got a new company. It's an Orange-Winged Amazon, a small baby that still makes baby sounds (just taken off the syringe), shakes its head and literally stood on its own hand for the first time yesterday in the cage. While we were transporting him, it took 3-4 hours from destination to destination and it was hot, after all it was a car, he had a big cage in the car, but he didn't quite manage to get water by himself, so I gave him 2 times water. On Saturday, she ate little, very little and drank a lot of water, probably due to dehydration. She continued like that yesterday, but not as much as she drank on Saturday. He eats little by little, he doesn't eat very much now, but he eats often but little. On Saturday, I saw that she pooped only water, without traces of anything else, it was literally just water and she did that very often. Yesterday I noticed that she started pooping with green traces of food, which encouraged me. Today, she also poops water and poops normally, but her stools still haven't returned to normal because she only knows how to expel liquid and a little mucus. She is currently eating seeds for large parrots, but I plan to switch her to pellets, which, just like I discovered, and she can't squeal, she simply takes the pellet in her mouth and throws it out. I also gave her an apple, which she ate, and she also ate 3 peas.

Can you tell me if this is normal, I think it was all influenced by stress, new surroundings, new people, heat in the car, dehydration and all that. Will the stool return to normal?

 

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If she is not eating solids well, try mashing up some peas, sweet potatoes, bananas and some powdered pellets. Start weaning her off the seeds. A lttle bit of seed is fine, and can be used as your treat for her. I;d give it another day or two but if not better, see your local Certified Avian Vet.

 

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If she is not eating solids well, try mashing up some peas, sweet potatoes, bananas and some powdered pellets. Start weaning her off the seeds. A lttle bit of seed is fine, and can be used as your treat for her. I;d give it another day or two but if not better, see your local Certified Avian Vet.

I let him out, when he got out he climbed to the top of the cage where the play area is and where the food bowl is. He literally ate half the food bowl. Inside the cage, it looks like he didn't really have the appetite to eat, I don't know why, it's a bit funny to me now because I literally don't understand what's going on in his childish head hahahahaha. He literally opens the seeds and everything, but he didn't want to do that in the cage hahahahahahah.

He doesn't want to eat pellets yet, he doesn't want to be near pellets, but we'll see in time.

He has been eating continuously for 45 minutes. Otherwise, he is 2 months and 15 days old.

 

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She MUST eat something. PLease offer her some baby parrot formula, and follow the directions for preparation. Keep trying to introduce new foods, mostly veggies and a small amount of fruits. and small amount of seed. FYI it can take some parrots months and months before they recognize and accept pellets as food, and they may only accept a particular brand or type of pellet too (picky SOB's that they are).