Need some insight/advice on some potentially concerning behavior I've noticed our Senegal to be doing. So he just officially got over a GI yeast/bacterial infection. He's since definitely perked up, is talking/chewing a lot more etc. But I've also noticed him to accidentally step in his own poop on occasion, then lick his feet clean with his tongue.
It's really worrying me that he'll regain some sort of horrible infection by doing this. We try to wipe the feces off his feet for him, but he resists, even when toweled. I try my best to clean up whatever poop I can after him, but with how frequently birds defecate, it's just unrealistic to think I can catch every single one. Growing up, my family had a TImneh grey, and he never did anything like this. I don't think our bird is trying to purposely eat his own feces as I've heard other birds do. It's more that he's just seemingly careless with where he steps and I guess he thinks it's okay to lick his own poop. We're trying to train him to use one of those "bird diapers" to prevent the poop being around at least when he's outside of his cage. Do others' birds do this? Can is really cause the health problems I'm worried about. Any other thoughts/ideas?
s ground foragers? Someone online told me they'd heard such. But PeeWee also spends the vast majority of his time on perches etc. Would make sense for a non-ground forager to not know to avoid his poop on a flat surface.