He sometimes eats his poop!

[Journeyman]

Hi again,

It's Journeyman, long time no talk, I've been busy. Here's an interesting question... every once in a while Cosmo, my CAG, will sit on the bottom of his cage and eat his poop! :sick: I feed him well and his cage is cleaned regularly. It doesn't seem to effect him and he doesn't do this often, is this an instinctual thing?

[Tycos_mom]

Some people say its because they're missing something in their diet. I don't really know for sure mabie you could call your vet and see what she/he says I don't think it will hurt him but its rather gross

[Dave007]

Unless there's obvious sickness, periodically a grey and other species will eat fecal matter because small perrticles of food go right through their digestive systems and mix in with the droppings and many times a birds eats through it to get to those particles. Could be seeds, pellets, nuts. Anything that can stay firm.

[lovethatgrey]

Once Emma did that by mistake... and she looked digusted with herself.

[judygram]

Now thats just plain disgusting:sick: :sick: :blink:

[Journeyman]

Dave007,

This is what I imagined it to be because he does it so rarely, and there's no sign of illness.