VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS

• Vitamins like fat soluble ones and water soluble ones are of much helpful in various metabolic functions occurring in the body.
• Care has to be paid in the provision of adequate amounts of vitamins to the diet of captive wild animals.
• The vitamins can be supplied along with the main diet as a special mixture to rectify feather loss like conditions. 

• Species like red vented bulbul, frugivours bats, guinea pigs, non-human primates etc. are in need of direct supply of vitamin C because they lack the enzyme L-gluconolactone oxidase required for the synthesis of vitamin C.