cracking and popping noise

[Ohlacey]

My Pied will do this just before she goes into shed scared me the first time I heard it as well. If an RI is ruled out it could be scales rubbinh and cracking against each other?

This happens to my Albino girl, as well.

I was really concerned about a RI when she started popping for the first time, but under stethoscope she sounded fine and displayed no other symptoms. She shed a few days later.

It happens every time she sheds now. I figured it was either a baby infection induced by the shed to come or just that... Her rougher pre-shed scales making noise.