Very large egg shaped poop

[Boston's Mama]

Very large egg shaped poop – is it usually a sign of too much hay or not enough ?

Oakley has intermittent soft stool syndrome plus decreased Cecal intake diagnosed
We have had a good week – until tonight

So may be unrelated but I changed his hay rack today to be a seagrass mat rolled with holes in it – easy to get the hay and I’ve seen him doin so a lot today
But he has been eating seagrass from the holder amongst it

I don’t know if he didn’t get enough hay ( which he doubt but could be ) or if the seagrass upset his tum ( he usually pulls his seagrass apart and drops the bits he chewed off however now it’s a hay rack I’m not finding the bits he usually drops so maybe he ate more than normal today )
Other option is he does get runny poo ( not te egg shaped ones though ) from eating litter – even tiny amount of litter. I did catch him eating a bit today ( we have a litter screen and usually he won’t eat it now but managed to today )

Which is likely the cause for a mix of really soft poop and very large egg poop ?

He ate his pellets fine in the morning and again at night
He’s his usual self
He’s drinking
But he has some really soft and squishy poop ( getting to diarreah which he gets often – but it isn’t there yet ) and some huge huge ones that are egg shaped- a mix of both !

I’ve changed his hay rack back incase
And removed the seagrass
But really hope to find out the most likely cause so I can find a way to prevent it again ( change hay rack to something else , change litter again etc etc )
I don’t like to change things if I can help it as he is so sensitive but the metal hay rack scared me as he tries to get in it and I’m nervous he will hurt his back or leg trying and it has hooks off it I don’t like incase he catches his eyes or something )

[Boston's Mama]

By the way the soft runny parts could be the cecals since he has intermittent soft cecotropes
Syndrome …
Maybe that’s part of how the issue is showing … and the large egg shaped ones might be what I need to base finding the culprite of today’s issue on … so large egg poop – what is usually the cause?not enough fibre?

[Azerane]

Is the large egg poop a fecal or cecal poop? Large, eggy poops usually indicate a gut slowdown, sometimes from not eating enough hay, other times from pain or from something in their system that isn’t passing as quickly as it should. There is no such thing as too much hay for bunnies, the indigestible fibre in the hay is what keeps the gut moving properly.

[Boston's Mama]

It’s the normal poops that are large – like twice normal size and egg shape, firm and hard. The cecals are runny , sticky and have long strands of mucus stretching off a couple of them I just found in his tray now ( not the hair type but wet stringy gloop )

[Boston's Mama]

From my understanding of his intermittent soft cecals syndrome his gut is running slower often. We do get soft cecals, sticky messes for 24 hours about once a week. He also got true diarreah once from eating 2-3 pieces of litter.
But the egg shaped large poop is new to us – he hasn’t had it like this before
He has had mucus on poops before when he gets ISC but this is very stringing – like it stretched between toilet paper about 6-10 cm
He is very very sensitive and can’t eat green grass or veges at all
He eats oxbow pellets ( 1/8th cup a day split over two feeds ) , unlimited hay
That’s it

I read cocci can cause the stringy mucus? But would I see other signs ?
Maybe he ate less hay and it messed with his gut flora triggering a ISC episode?
I also just read that when the gut is stressed for any reason it can produce a film of mucus to protect it ( the film is a version of what happens to aide food poisoning in humans according the vet who’s commented this on someone else’s thread on another forum ) and maybe that’s the mucus ?

Man this is confusing !
I guess since he is still eatin and drinking and acting otherwise normal I’ll have to assume this was a lack of hay eating and it’s triggered a ISC episode … and hope things are back to normal tomorrow

[Boston's Mama]

Or that the seagrass caused things to slow triggering eggy poop and ISC to flare up…

[Aaron]

How is his poop today? And Oakley is amazingly adorable!

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