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Tonight is day 9. She was slow during most of the day and poops were small and dark green as usual. When inspected there is grasses and grit in them though so it isn’t all digestive enzymes. I did another smear and found nothing remarkable and did my first gram stain on a slide but only found the probiotics - so no bacterial infections (providing I got something in the sample, I did not make a culture plate). She is still happy painting the patio with her tiny poops and hunting for anything she can find - she managed to catch a lizard today and swallowed it before I got to her, so I guess she had a nice treat from her usual liquid meals much to my upset. Foods are primarily egg yolks now - she is having 3 per day with some puréed pellets and as a treat she gets some apple sauce. She refuses to drink on her own and gets hand watered whenever her crop feels doughy - so 10cc’s 4-5 times per day at least. She was on electrolytes in the water today. She had her last digestive enzyme dose thismorning but to be honest I did not see the grasses in her poop breaking down any better - it all seemed the same. She had her anti fungals today as well. She picked right up tonight when she and her friend came in for the night which was a first. She went out of her way to try to beat up her broody pal as much as possible and followed her around the house making trouble. There was also one better looking poop tonight that had a section of brown in it - it smelt absolutely horrible and may have been cecal but it was nice to see something other than urates and bright green.
The impaction seems to be much the same although now I am wondering if it is actually her gizzard that is the problem or something else. Her poops are very thin so something is squeezing them somewhere along the lines. The space between the gizzard and the crop on the X-ray is also quite large so perhaps it is the bowel or pancreas? I’m not sure and only a necropsy will tell me unfortunately. Her crop is still the same as it was on day one although I am fairly confident it is emptying as the food she has had over the last week would be much more than what it reduces down to (although there is at least one lizard stuck in there now). Here is a pic of her poop for reference incase anyone else ever has the same problem - I did not get a picture of her good one, this is just the usual.
The impaction seems to be much the same although now I am wondering if it is actually her gizzard that is the problem or something else. Her poops are very thin so something is squeezing them somewhere along the lines. The space between the gizzard and the crop on the X-ray is also quite large so perhaps it is the bowel or pancreas? I’m not sure and only a necropsy will tell me unfortunately. Her crop is still the same as it was on day one although I am fairly confident it is emptying as the food she has had over the last week would be much more than what it reduces down to (although there is at least one lizard stuck in there now). Here is a pic of her poop for reference incase anyone else ever has the same problem - I did not get a picture of her good one, this is just the usual.