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Thanks very much, Helene, I'll certainly heed your advice the next time
we get an emaciated animal.
Chris
On 14/02/2014 1:15 AM, Helene Van Doninck wrote:
> Hi Chris, Just in case you get involved with another starving bird in
> the future, it is VERY important that it NOT be fed until it is warmed
> up and rehydrated. Birds ( or any animal really) that are in severe
> emaciation are on the very edge circulation-wise. Digestion of food
> takes a certain amount of water and if fed in a starving and
> dehydrated state, the body will sequester fluids from the tissues in
> an attempt to move the food along and it can be the " straw that
> breaks the camel's back" which pushes the bird to circulatory collapse
> and death. I'm sure that vulture was going to die regardless of the
> meatball fed, but in the future, fluids and heat are most important.
> When we get starving birds in it is days before they get food. We
> start with IV fluids to rehydrate them, followed by oral fluids that
> contain highly digestible liquid protein, followed by a liquid slurry
> of food, then lean solid protein mixture, then lean meat, then
> something like skinned mice ( they can't digest fur and bones in an
> emaciated state), then finally solid whole food. Again, it's often a
> few days before they get solid food, though we can give them some
> energy via dextrose in their fluids.
>
> The other thing that can happen if emaciated birds are given solid
> food is they can't spare the fluid to push it through and it sits
> there and rots in the crop. If I can ever help or give advice, feel
> free to call at the number below. We've gotten lots of emaciated birds
> this winter, including 6 snowy owls!
>
> Again, I'm sure it would have died anyway given it's state, but in the
> future if you get one in the same situation..it's not safe to feed
> solids to an emaciated animal. I can talk you through giving it oral
> fluids on the phone.
>
> Thanks for caring and going to retrieve this bird. It's a brutal
> winter for wildlife this year. We are getting an unprecedented number
> of raptors this winter.
>
> Helene
>
> Helene Van Doninck DVM
> Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre
> RR#1 Brookfield NS B0N1C0
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>
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:20 PM, Andy Moir/Christine Callaghan
> <slickdog1@gmail.com <mailto:slickdog1@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On Monday, Feb. 10th, late in the afternoon, I got a call from a
> resident of Brier Island about a Turkey Vulture on her deck,
> apparently unable to fly and very weak. By the time I caught the
> next ferry over (I live in Freeport on Long Island), the bird had
> left the deck and had walked through the snow toward some trees.
> We found it huddled under a spruce. I brought it back to our
> house and could see that its wings and legs weren't injured, but
> could feel that its keel bone was really prominent. So I concluded
> that the bird was starving. After calling the person on duty at
> Hope for Wildlife, I tried to feed it tiny meatballs of raw
> burger. It swallowed one, but I didn't want to stress it by
> force-feeding it. We put it in a large dog crate with straw on the
> bottom in our heated sunporch, and left a couple of meatballs near
> its head. It seemed very weak, so I was sad but not surprised in
> the morning to see that it had died overnight. It's been a tough
> old winter for the big birds around here. Chris
>
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Thanks very much, Helene, I'll certainly heed your advice the next
time we get an emaciated animal.<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/02/2014 1:15 AM, Helene Van
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<div>Hi Chris, Just in case you get involved with another
starving bird in the future, it is VERY important that it NOT
be fed until it is warmed up and rehydrated. Birds ( or any
animal really) that are in severe emaciation are on the very
edge circulation-wise. Digestion of food takes a certain
amount of water and if fed in a starving and dehydrated state,
the body will sequester fluids from the tissues in an attempt
to move the food along and it can be the " straw that breaks
the camel's back" which pushes the bird to circulatory
collapse and death. I'm sure that vulture was going to die
regardless of the meatball fed, but in the future, fluids and
heat are most important. When we get starving birds in it is
days before they get food. We start with IV fluids to
rehydrate them, followed by oral fluids that contain highly
digestible liquid protein, followed by a liquid slurry of
food, then lean solid protein mixture, then lean meat, then
something like skinned mice ( they can't digest fur and bones
in an emaciated state), then finally solid whole food. Again,
it's often a few days before they get solid food, though we
can give them some energy via dextrose in their fluids. <br>
<br>
</div>
<div>The other thing that can happen if emaciated birds are
given solid food is they can't spare the fluid to push it
through and it sits there and rots in the crop. If I can ever
help or give advice, feel free to call at the number below.
We've gotten lots of emaciated birds this winter, including 6
snowy owls!<br>
<br>
</div>
<div>Again, I'm sure it would have died anyway given it's state,
but in the