Detailed Description for Handfeeding All Hookbill Species Zeigler Formula 20oz ZeiglerŪ Handfeeding Formula All Hookbill Species
ZeiglerŪ Handfeeding Formula is a completely balanced diet
for hand-rearing all hookbill species. This diet supplies the essential amino
and fatty acids, vitamins, trace minerals, and energy required for development
and growth of baby birds.
ZeiglerŪ Handfeeding Formula provides 100% of the daily
nutrient requirements for growing birds. Dietary supplementation is not recommended.
This diet is easily fed and highly digestible. Zeigler's drugfree manufacturing
process reduces the risk of contamination and provides for uncompromised quality
and product consistency.
Feeding Instructions:
Thoroughly mix hot water (from the tap) or boiling water
(for younger chicks) with 30% solids in a feeding cup to feed chicks 4 days
after hatching. Gradually increase the proportion of solids to 40% until the
chicks are 30 days old. Cool the formula to a slightly warmer than normal room
temperature, it will have applesauce consistency or slightly thinner. To feed
use a teaspoon or demitasse spoon with sides bent up to form a trough. Large
syringes have also been used successfully, but care should be taken not to get
the formula into the windpipe. It needs an experienced person. Feeding response
is stimulated by touching the beak or back corners of the beak with the spoon
containing warm formula. Chicks get used to this technique within 3-4 days and
readily open their gullet for the formula. Young chicks should be fed every
3-4 hours during the day time. Note the condition of the crop prior to each
feeding. Reduce the number of feedings as the chick gets older. Hand feeding
three times a day is sufficient for a 30 day old chick. Hand feeding should
be eliminated completely or reduced to one spoon feeding as soon as chicks are
self feeding well from the feeding cups. When the chicks are 30-40 days old,
offer fruits once a day as a treat only (in between the two main feedings).
When the chicks are 45 days old, start on the small sized Zeigler pelleted starter/breeder
diet while gradually phasing out the formula.
Ingredients:
Soybean Flour, Wheat Flour, Corn Flour, Sucrose, Corn Starch,
High Gluten Wheat Flour, Lecithin, Dicalcium Phosphate, Soy Oil, Fish Protein
Hydrolysate, Calcium Carbonate, Brewers Yeast, L-Lysine, dl-Methionine, Manganese
Sulfate, Choline Chloride, Niacin, Zinc Sulfate, Magnesium Oxide, Ferrous Sulfate,
Cobalt Carbonate, Potassium Iodide, dl-Alpha Tocopheryl Acetate (source of vitamin
E), Vitamin A Acetate, D-Activated Animal Sterol (source of Vitamin D3), d-Calcium
Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfate (source of
vitamin K), Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pyridoxine,
Folic Acid, Sodium Selenite, Natural and Artificial Flavors and L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate
(source of stabilized vitamin C).
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