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Thanks, Connie. The bone event was the night before last. So two nights ago. And yes, he had two normal consistency poops since, before the mustard poop.
Point taken on more muscle meat and less bone ratio for their normal diet. Can you point me to a resource for that? What kinds of muscle meat should I be adding in? At present they eat one of two kinds of meals: 1) ground chicken meat, and bones from the butcher, and 2) chicken backs and necks left over after the breasts have been removed.
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Thanks, Connie. The bone event was the night before last. So two nights ago. And yes, he had two normal consistency poops since, before the mustard poop.
Point taken on more muscle meat and less bone ratio for their normal diet. Can you point me to a resource for that? What kinds of muscle meat should I be adding in? At present they eat one of two kinds of meals: 1) ground chicken meat, and bones from the butcher, and 2) chicken backs and necks left over after the breasts have been removed.
You don't want to do (or re-do) the raw diet now, I'm sure you understand.
But for later ..... Are they eating only chicken? There's no protein variety. What are the bones from the butcher? Bones from what animal? Or did you mean "ground chicken, including meat and bones," from the butcher?
What does "chicken backs and necks left over after the breasts have been removed" mean? Backs and necks are distinct from the breast, as are legs. Do you mean you get whole chickens, remove the breasts and legs, and use the backs and necks for the dogs? I'm trying to get a picture of the total RMB versus muscle meat they get. Also, is there fish oil, a little produce, and a little organ meat? (Maybe a new thread for this regular diet review, keeping this thread for the present diarrhea challenge.)
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What a relief!
However, please start a thread about upping the MM in the diet. The picture of the log shows that there has been too much bone to meat in the diet, even though it's much better than hard pellets.
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Okay, I had them both with days back to back well formed poops and I started introducing rmb back into their diet. I think I made the mistake of transitioning too quickly.
I used the following method, feeding 2x a day and transitioning one day at a time:
4 days - 1 rice / 0 rmb
day 1 transition - 7/8 rice / 1/8 rmb
day 2 transition - 3/4 rice / 1/4 rmb
day 3 transition - 1/2 rice / 1/2 rmb
day 4 transition - all rmb (yesterday)
Each day their poops were gorgeous until today.
Today Skipper has pudding poops again. Jethro hasn't pooped yet so I don't know if he is affected as well. I have cooked another pot of rice and am ready to feed them. I'm just not sure if I have to go all the way back to rice only, or if it is okay to give them 3/4 rice and 1/4 rmb?
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Okay, I had them both with days back to back well formed poops and I started introducing rmb back into their diet. I think I made the mistake of transitioning too quickly.
I used the following method, feeding 2x a day and transitioning one day at a time:
4 days - 1 rice / 0 rmb
day 1 transition - 7/8 rice / 1/8 rmb
day 2 transition - 3/4 rice / 1/4 rmb
day 3 transition - 1/2 rice / 1/2 rmb
day 4 transition - all rmb (yesterday)
Each day their poops were gorgeous until today.
Today Skipper has pudding poops again. Jethro hasn't pooped yet so I don't know if he is affected as well. I have cooked another pot of rice and am ready to feed them. I'm just not sure if I have to go all the way back to rice only, or if it is okay to give them 3/4 rice and 1/4 rmb?
I would start over. I would start with a fast, too, even if only 1/2 day.
From my first reply to this thread: "I urge that you not be in any kind of a hurry. Diarrhea means that the GI system is now inflamed (no matter what the trigger was), and only several formed logs will tell you that it's soothed and ready for a slow return, in small meals, to the regular diet."
This: day 3 transition - 1/2 rice / 1/2 rmb .... day 4 transition - all rmb (yesterday) is not my idea of gradual. It goes from 50% rice to no rice in one day.
Also, was there perchance any whole egg in the recent addition of regular food?
Also, I would want to see several days' worth of perfect poops just to point me in the direction of strictly dietary indiscretion and not some bug flaring up and then recurring. JMO!
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