'Normal' Urates?

[Miss Lily]

Amy's urates always seem to be semi solid and surrounded in a clear mucous which looks like, and has the consistency, of raw egg white. There is only ever a small amount of urate in the mucous compared to the faeces part. There is always a small amount of water with the urates. Is this normal, or should her urates be more solid and sausage-shaped like the faeces? Having seen Dave Weldon's photographs of perfect urates and faeces, I am just wondering if Amy's are considered to be in the range of 'normal' too.

She is an extremely shy drinker. I have a dripper running for most of the day (a plastic pint glass with a hole in the bottom) which is filled 2 - 3 times a day, plus she is misted with warm water twice a day too. There is always a tiny orange/yellow tip to the urates, but nothing significant. She is certainly not dehydrated.

 

[nick barta]

Oh crap, i am not sure...

 

[chameleonman57]

Try and post a picture of it so I can help.

 

[jannb]

Tiff; Post a picture. I just couldn't resist posting this pic of one of my daughter's little guys taking his poop. Jann

 

[hemiram04]

I would say that it is pretty normal. Nothing to be worried about. If the urates were yellow that would mean that it is dehydrated (which it is not).

 

[Miss Lily]

I'll post a pic tomorrow. She dropped the urate down the back of a branch today and it stuck there! Not the best place to get a photo, let alone clean it up, lol! I'll try again tomorrow!

 

[chameleonman57]

It looks very normal.

 

[Miss Lily]

Here's a couple of pics of Amy's urates. She 'stuck' them to the side of a flower pot today, lol! Nice and easy to get to. There is a little bit of poop stuck to one end, as well as a few orange specks - but these pretty much the norm for her.

 

[jannb]

Not allot of brown. Maybe it's all going to nourish her young body.

 

[Miss Lily]

Not allot of brown. Maybe it's all going to nourish her young body.

She did more poop - quite a lot actually. I just didn't take a photo of it!