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\"turkey \"turkeyThis story was shared with us by Rocky Mountain Raptor Program<\/a> in Colorado.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lead poisoning<\/a> in turkey vultures is a common ailment seen at the Rocky Mountain Raptor Program. Almost every vulture patient admitted by staff is suffering from an elevated level of lead in the blood. When a sickly, adult turkey vulture was found wandering around downtown Fort Collins, Colorado, staff jumped into action.<\/p>\n

On admit, the 1,631 gram-vulture was at a healthy weight (about 3.5 pounds) but incredibly weak and ataxic, struggling to properly stand and balance. A lead test revealed that the stricken vulture had a lead level of 4.4 ppm. GI stasis is a huge problem in lead-affected vultures. Rehabilitation staff were worried that this vulture had begun the inexorable decline that all-too-often leads to death in lead patients.<\/p>\n

Gas was already building up in the vulture\u2019s crop, indicating that it was unable to process and digest food properly. It was vital that rehabilitation staff jump-start the bird\u2019s digestive tract while simultaneously beginning the slow process of removing lead from the vulture\u2019s blood.<\/p>\n

In order to accomplish this, the vulture was put on a daily regimen of EmerAid Intensive Care Carnivore formula. Because the raptor was too weak to stand or hold its head up, the formula was gently tube-fed into the vulture\u2019s stomach. Thanks to its easy-to-digest formula, the vulture was able to start processing greater and greater amounts of carnivore diet. Soon after, the vulture was able to transition onto a whole food diet again.<\/p>\n

After over a month of twice-daily chelation treatments, the vulture\u2019s blood tested low for lead (<.003ppm) and it had recovered enough to move through the final stages of rehabilitation and onto release.<\/p>\n

On a sunny summer day, staff and volunteers bid the gregarious vulture (weighing 1,648 grams; a little more than 3.5 pounds)) farewell in a field near to where it had been rescued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A lead-poisoned turkey vulture’s survival depends on Rocky Mountain Raptor Program staff jump-starting the bird\u2019s digestive tract while simultaneously beginning the slow process of removing lead from the vulture\u2019s blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSickly Turkey Vulture Overcomes Lead Poisoning - EmerAidVet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Rocky Mountain Raptor Program saves a lead poisoned turkey vulture by jump-starting its digestive tract while removing lead from its blood.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/sickly-turkey-vulture-overcomes-lead-poisoning\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sickly Turkey Vulture Overcomes Lead Poisoning - 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