500mls??? They didn’t tell my chickens that! Today they hardly drank anything…On a good day I can get two 35ml feeds into her. Mostly I can only get one feed in. The limitation is that if I tube feed into a very full crop I risk causing aspiration.
According to the great oracle at Google the average chicken drinks a half a liter a day. That is 500mls.
So, if that is true, my tube feeding is getting her roughly half her fluid requirements.
She is getting a bit more from the corn because that is frozen not dried.
What I am tubing is baby bird formula with added Pedialyte (which is basically sugar water with electrolytes). I am adding some extra probiotics and some extra vitamins.