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\"brownThe following story about a brown pelican was submitted by the Florida Keys Wild Bird Center<\/a> in Florida.<\/em><\/p>\n

This juvenile brown pelican was admitted to the Florida Keys Wild Bird Center in early March 2021. The pelican was found near the water not flying or moving very much.<\/p>\n

Upon initial examination it was noted that the patient was knuckling, not standing very well, had a pouch infection, and was very emaciated. Because of these symptoms, the pelican was a suspected botulism case.<\/p>\n

In order to combat the dehydration and emaciation, we gave multiple dilutions of EmerAid IC Piscivore<\/a> until the patient was receiving it at full strength. We started with a day of EmerAid consisting of 75%, 80%, 90%, and 100% strength feeds.<\/p>\n

After the day of EmerAid, the pelican began standing and seemed more alert. We switched to a fish smoothie blend for feedings at this point, then moved to whole fish after a few days.<\/p>\n

There was a small wound on the top of the patient’s beak that needed to heal up, and he needed to put on some weight. It took a little over a month to reach satisfactory results.<\/p>\n

The initial weight of this pelican was 1.85 kilograms (about 4 pounds), and by release the weight was 3.45 kilograms (about 7.6 pounds), which is much closer to the average weight of juvenile brown pelicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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