https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/clinical-questions/22763/budgie-with-vent-git-problem A friend brought a budgie to me on Sunday - - it is male about 5 years old I think - eating ,drinking normally - she said it was rubbing its vent on the edge of the cage - I looked at it and could see faeces caked around the vent - it had solidifieden-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/137325?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 04 Jun 2015 19:28:54 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:5bf5af8c-a249-4709-9625-d7604f6706ccMarie Kubiak<p>Pass on to bird vet if possible. If fluffed up and sleeping more then it is likely to be a pretty sick bird and you may lose a friend if it decides to die on you!</p> <p>Usual approach would be to do faecal and crop cytology looking for any GI pathogens (monopopulation of bacteria on faecal, intracellular bacteria/motile protozoa on crop sample, budding yeast on either sample). If cause identified then treat, if not then next step would be radiographs (survey +/- contrast). Faecal/urate matting can be a problem with the droppings themselves (polyuria, diarrhoea, undigested food in faeces clumping) but may be altered mobility affecting posture or a weak bird sitting on the floor in its own faeces. There is also the consideration that the vent rubbing may be masturbation (always an awkward conversation with owners...) and a secondary irritation/trauma to the vent in a hypersexual bird may be altering the ability to defaecate away from the body.</p> <p>Marie</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>