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

TUBE FEEDING METHOD IN BIRDS

• Select the sterile feeding tube for each bird.
• Hold the bird gently and straighten the neck vertically with the head that is grasped under mandibles.
• Pass the selected tube into the oral cavity and down the esophagus on the right side of
• the neck.
• You can now see the passage of tube if you wet the area of proximal neck or you can feel the passage of tube by palpation of proximal neck region.

Note

• If the bird is with crop, pass the tube directly into the crop
• If the bird is without crop, pass the tube up to the distal end of esophagus; if not, this may lead to the development of iatrogenic trauma to the proventriculus and / or gizzard.