Critical Care Diets - An I on the right track?

RE: Critical Care Diets - An I on the right track?

James Colver Cert. Ed, RVN — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:25:01 GMT

Apparently you can freeze the bags almost indefinitely :)

RE: Critical Care Diets - An I on the right track?

Livethedream — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:13:26 GMT

Thankyou, unfortunately because we don't see many exotics it's not really feasible for us to keep them all in stock because they would end up going out of date before we used them or clients woild have to buy multiple bags to mix together and we just don't have the client base, and the clients we have just wouldn't be willing to spend the money (obviously we can order them in if they were).

So I'm trying to just help vets make the best choice rather than gold standard (I found out a vet dispensed a rat Oxbow herbivore to a rat and was slightly horrified as a rat owner myself!)

Also since Vetarks critical care formula was "discovered" it seems to be the go to for exotics that aren't eating. Fine short term but as far as I can tell it isn't intended as a food substitute per se, just as a kick start

RE: Critical Care Diets - An I on the right track?

James Colver Cert. Ed, RVN — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 23:39:47 GMT

Hi,

I'm not an 'exotics' person at all, but I do remember speaking to the Emeraid bods at BSAVA and just looked at their literature - it would seem that if you have a bag of each of the Emeraid foods (carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, piscivore) then you are covered for pretty much any species. They have a huge long species list with how to make up an appropriate food for each one (e.g. for a juvenile domestic duck, it suggests 4.5 scoops of omnivore and 0.5 scoops of carnivore).