Oxbow Critical Care for herbivores

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Critical Care can be mixed with water, formed into shapes, and left out to dry overnight to create treats for your little ones.

Most of these mix with warm water and produce a gruel-like paste that can be passed through a syringe or lapped from a bowl or spoon.CCF Critical Care Formula should be used when the animal is not eating and should be made up freshly each time. Treatment with Critical Care can regulate the weight of the guinea pig, normalise faeces and relieve wind in the animal.

Should your rabbit fall ill and require special care, our range of critical care and recovery food is designed to help get them on the mend as soon as possible. CCF in powder form remains stable for months (provided that the container is sealed) and provides a suitable protein source which counters the hypoproteinaemic states of catabolism, which in birds especially is a major problem. Regardless of the surface, it is important to remember that slick surfaces should be covered with something that will provide traction, so your pet doesn’t slip and increase the risk of injury. Anyway after 3 days of low dose metacam and soft food he was as good as new, we also got a bill of good health from the vet.Administer very small amounts at a time, aiming for the center of the mouth and not the back of the throat. Therefore, it is important that when providing critical care nutrition, the chosen diet is provided in sufficient quantities. She has a Certificate in Zoological Medicine, a Diploma in Zoological Medicine (Mammalian) and is an RCVS Recognised Specialist in Zoo and Wildlife Medicine.

This is a fantastic product which many vets I have used have recommended, over the many years I have had my chinchillas. My vet recommends that I always have a bag of Critical Care formula available for emergency situations. I still don’t know what happened, Kuro is still reluctant to eat but he’s eaten a good quantity of the smushed pellets (that i had mixed with normal solid pellets) and pooped normally.

This can be very good; however, it does not have individual millilitre graduations on, so it can be easy to push too much food into the mouth in one go. Oral fluid therapy is satisfactory and sufficient for most ill rabbits, although intravenous fluid therapy is indicated for shocked rabbits.