Harrison's Recovery Formula - 2 oz

RECOVERY FORMULA - A Complete Nutritional Support Formula for Sick or Injured Birds

 Uses: 

-For animals needing an easily assimilated source of nutrients.

-For medical and surgical patients that are recovering from pansystemic failure.

-For nutritional support during the transition phase of a diet change.

-For animals in which anorexia has slowed gastrointestinal emptying time.

-Also used as a handfeeding diet for growth from hatching to fledging of small insectivorous birds with an apparent inability to digest cornstarch. Species include bushtits, wrentits, vireos, wrens & smaller flycatchers and warblers.

Caution: The correct feeding technique must be used in order to prevent injury to the bird or inhalation of the formula that could result in pneumonia and death. If using a non-metal or flexible tube, be sure that the bird does not damage the tube.

Step 1: Gently feel the crop to determine that it is almost empty before feeding.

Step 2: Mix fresh: 1 part dry formula to 1-3 parts bottled “drinking water” heated to approximately 103°F (39°C). Do not microwave. Allow to cool to lukewarm.

Step 3: Feeding with a tube is probably the most universally successful technique. As one faces the bird, position the tube to enter the oral cavity from the left side of the bird’s beak and direct it toward the right side of the bird’s neck. Deposit the food into the bird’s crop.

Step 4: Feed the bird until the crop is full but not overstuffed and clean the excess formula from the bird’s beak, feathers and enclosure. Repeat as often as needed to maintain or increase the bird’s body weight.

Recovery Formula Ingredients:

*Soy protein isolate, *Sunflower oil, *Sugar, Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin/Mineral Supplement (Mixed Tocopherols - source of Vitamin E, dl-Alpha Tocopherol Acetate, Manganese Sulfate, Niacin Supplement, Zinc Sulfate, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Copper Sulfate, Biotin, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Riboflavin Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D Supplement, Folic Acid), Potassium Chloride, Monocalcium Phosphate, *Lecithin, DL-Methionine.

*CERTIFIED ORGANIC INGREDIENT

Dry Mix Guaranteed Analysis: Crude protein (min.) 35%, crude fat (min.) 19%, crude fiber (max.) 1%, moisture (max.) 10%