Harrison's Bird Foods Organic Recovery Formula Hand Feeding Food for Birds, 350-Grams

Harrisons Recovery is a complete Hand-Feeding Food formulated for Hatchlings and to provide nutritional support for Sick or Injured birds. This nutrient packed food is 100% USDA Organic and Made in the USA.

Product Benefits:

• Made in the USA
• For animals needing an easily assimilated source of nutrients.
• 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.
• USDA Organic

Caution: The correct feeding technique must be used in order to prevent injury to the patient or inhalation of the formula that could lead to pneumonia and death. Persons not experienced with tube-feeding should defer to a professional.

Feeding Directions:
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". Adjust consistency if necessary. Use a thermometer to ensure a temperature range of 102-106 degrees F.

To avoid burns, do not microwave and use care when offering food to a chick.

Step 3: Feeding with a tube is probable the most universally successful technique.

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.

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