Tube Feeding

[casportpony]

Nearly awake.  Just kidding.    Sleepea is eating and acting pretty much normal again.  Weight is up to 220 gm, that is an increase of 26 gm from its low two days ago.  I am pretty sure that it was suffering from cocci and the Corid  kicked in just in time.

Odd thing happened yesterday, in the small brooder Sleepea is in with its two hatchmates, four weeks old, two more hatchmates at five weeks old, and Sweepea who is at seven or eight weeks old.  We were out feeding all the wee ones in the garage and heard a lot of commotion in Sweepeas brooder.  I finished with the feeding of the one day old peas and walked over to see what was going on.  Those crazy chicks had Sweepea down and were viciously attacking her!    Sweepeas right eye was bleeding and she was squealing with pain.  We put some Neosporin on her wound and then into isolation, she is fine today but wow were they vicious to her, guess I will never know what caused that.  I would have thought that they would have picked on the weaker chick Sleepea since it was sick and down.  It's always something.  Which reminds me I need to update you on the Respiratory Problem thread, the never ending story.....

26 grams in two days is a good gain for one that size! How exciting it must have been to see that.

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

I'll get some close ups of the feed for you.... It's not like any other crumble I have seen before.

-Kathy

Must have a gelitan base, that is good for me and my joints and makes my nails and hair grow pretty and fast also. my hair grows about 8 to 10 inches a year.

 

[casportpony]

Quote:
This is wha's in it:

INGREDIENTS: Soybean Meal, Ground Corn, Distillers dried grains, Vegetable Oil & Animal Fat Blend, Calcium Carbonate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Wheat Millrun, Sodium Chloride, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, DL-Methionine, Choline Chloride, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Vitamin E Acetate, Niacin Supplement, Copper Sulfate, D-Cal Pantothenate, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex, Ethylenediamine Dihydroiodide, Biotin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Sodium Selenite, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Folic Acid

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

So happy to hear she is better.

Many times when you take one from the flock for even a couple days this will happen, same goes with putting much younger ones in the brooder, here is what i do, i place the newcomers in a wired off area in the pen somewhere, today i used a section of the brooder, after a day or two i remove the barrier and wala everyone is fine 2 days olds all the way to 7 week olds of all species and i have never had an injury or death with the exception of a wee chick that had a crusty navel i did not notice and the other birds pecked it till it kinda came out, i put it down because it would have died anyhow.

Last year i used a 10 foot peice of hardware cloth and a noodle to stop them from tearing up their little beak when they saw me

Later that day i picked it up and they were a flock

 

[casportpony]

Now if I had seen this I'd be worried! I think those are tapeworm segments (not a picture I took, it's one that dawg53 posted).


-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

This is wha's in it:

INGREDIENTS: Soybean Meal, Ground Corn, Distillers dried grains, Vegetable Oil & Animal Fat Blend, Calcium Carbonate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Wheat Millrun, Sodium Chloride, L-Lysine monohydrochloride, DL-Methionine, Choline Chloride, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganous Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Vitamin E Acetate, Niacin Supplement, Copper Sulfate, D-Cal Pantothenate, Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex, Ethylenediamine Dihydroiodide, Biotin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Sodium Selenite, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Folic Acid

-Kathy

Vegetable oil and animal fat blend

must be what causes the transparency
Weird when to use the spell check on my post and it wanted to change the spelling of most of the ingredients you listed

 

[KsKingBee]

Anyone have a special recipe they would like to share for tube feeding?

 

[casportpony]

Anyone have a special recipe they would like to share for tube feeding?

Other than baby bird food I have only used turkey crumbles that I soak in warm water, but getting it through a tube smaller that a 30 french is too difficult for me and I'm too lazy to puree it. Not sure it's appropriate for peafowl, but I have tube cats with a canned food called A/D. It looks like this:



Another thing I feed them when they are sick is mealworms or crickets. Pretty easy to force feed those if needed

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

@KsKingBee , how is Sleepea today? And tell us, how do you make your tube feeding recipe?

-Kathy

 

[KsKingBee]

@KsKingBee , how is Sleepea today? And tell us, how do you make your tube feeding recipe?

-Kathy

Sleepea is looking MUCH better, weighs 234 now, that is 14 gm increase from yesterday and eating well. I was finishing lunch with a banana in the brooder house and offered Sweepea some and she took it so I offered Sleepea and the others, now in separate brooder because they keep attacking Sweepea, some too. OMG they loved it! When they got a little chunk they would run about with their prize like guinea and a grasshopper.

I was asking about recipes because I have really sick adults in the breeding pens that I had to feed this morning and will again this evening. That whole problem is really getting to me but for historical purposes I want to tell that tale on the Respiratory thread so when someone in the future searches they can get the entire picture and be able to perhaps garnish something useful from the ordeal.

That said, we started with our regular 28% feed and screened it through a #8 hail screen, that is 1/8th inch wire. Used the powdered feed adding whole raw eggs, Kickin' Chicken vitamins, vitamin E, yogurt, honey, and water. It passed with a bit of effort through a #23 catheter, if we had more time which seemed to be of the essence, it may have softened a bit more making it pass the syringe and tubing easier. I fed 50 ml per bird and they are responding, hopefully it is not the getting better before passing, I'll let you know.