gulfbrzdawn":jot6zljv said:Sorry to hear Pippin is not pooping for you. Beardies do not always lose control of their back legs when impacted. It depends on the location of the impaction and the severity of it. If the impaction is close to the spine it will put pressure on it resulting in back leg paralysis.
You can use babyfood applesauce or canned pumpkin(no sugar). Mix it with a little water to thin and add a small drop or two of olive oil or mineral oil. Then give it to your beardie with a syringe(needleless). Drop it on her nose until she starts to lick it off. Your beardie probably won't take much more than a syringe full. You don't need alot.. just enough to get things moving. :wink:
What are you feeding your beardie? Have you recently started her on a new feeder? How old/big is your beardie?
Warm water soaks are also great for initiating a bowel movement.
Try this and see if it helps! Let us know how Pippin is doing.
gulfbrzdawn":10jalqgl said:Did I misunderstand or are you only feeding her once a week? Sorry if I didn't understand that correctly!
gulfbrzdawn":20slf452 said:That is great that she poo'ed in the bath!
How old is Pippin? How many crickets do you give once a week?
gulfbrzdawn":2wkgovnj said:Well that's good that you were able to get the pumpkin in her. Be very careful though when prying open her mouth to feed that you don't put the food too far back into her throat that she aspirates it.
You might want to consider spacing out her crickets over the week instead of all in one feeding. This could possibly be the reason for her not pooping. That is alot of crickets at one time for an adult beardie. It also wouldn't hurt to give her more than 30 crix in a week, since crickets don't have as much meat as other feeders like worms, she could handle about 50 crickets a week.
Do you also give her calcium and multivitamin supplements? How often?
Starforce2":1en92ejv said:keep in mind your dragon is going to have it's own tastes. I don't necessarily agree with the live food vs veggies. There's no reason why you can't have both in the viv at the same time. However, your dragon may get tired of a given food and want to switch. It seems these lizards each have their own personalities and their appetites seem to match, meaning each will differ. I often keep superworms and veggies in at the same time. She often ignores one or other, but also sometimes will eat both. I actually threw in 3 crickets yesterday and they've dissapeared and I've not seen her take a cricket in ages. Though I would like if she'd eat more of her dill, it's high in calcium. Though I can probably feed it to the roaches or crickets and she'll get it that way.
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