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AVI-PLUS
Parrot / Parrakeet food supplement
Avi-Plus Parrot /Parakeet is
a food supplement containing proteins, vitamins, minerals and
trace elements that may be partially or wholly absent from a
pure seed diet. The well balanced nutritional value of Avi-Plus
ensures that chicks grow well and feather beautifully. Avi-Plus
is manufactured from precooked, processed ingredients intended
for human consumption, which guarantees maximum digestibility,
minimal bacterial content and protects the chicks from unnecessary
infections. Can be used as 20% of a parrot diet.
Contains : Maize, wheat,
specially prepared soya, casein, vegetable fats, dicalcium phosphate,
calcium carbonate, salt, sucrose, lysine, methionine, multivitamins,
minerals and trace elements. Contains 20% protein and 2,5% fat.
The fat level has been kept low to enable you to use sunflower
seed as part of the diet.
Feeding Instructions : To 100ml of Avi-Plus add 80ml cold water.
Mix well. Add chopped greens, fruit and soaked seeds as required.
Recommended daily allowances per to
be fed in conjunction with a well balanced seed mix :
Small birds e.g. Lovebird......... 1
heaped teaspoon
Medium birds e.g. Ringnecks..... 2 heaped teaspoons
Parrots e.g. African Greys........ 1 heaped tablespoon
Large birds e.g. Macaws......... 2 heaped tablespoons
PP1 - 1kg £5.50 PP2 - 20kg £64.95
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Avi-Sup Multivitamins are especially formulated containing 13 essential
vitamins in the proportions that suit most avian species. When
used regularly as a dietry supplement it will promote the general
good health of your birds all year round.
Avi-Sup mixes readily with "softfoods"
before being moistened and the concentration is such that it
is easy to measure the correct amount using the usual household
measuing spoon.
Feeding Instructions : Add 2 (two) rounded teaspoons (5g) vitamin
powder to 1 kg softfood.
Mix thoroughly before moistening.
Use in conjunction with Avi-Sup Minerals and Trace Elements.
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Composition
Vitamin A (min) iu/kg
Vitamin D (min) 600 000 iu/kg
Vitamin E (min) 18 000 iu/kg
Vitamin K (min) 2 000 iu/kg
Thiamine (min) 1 200 iu/kg
Riboflavin (min) 2 400 iu/kg
Biotin (min) 54 mg./kg
Folic acid (min) 600 mg./kg
Pantothenic acid (min) 3 000 mg./kg
Niacin (min) 10 000 mg./kg
Vitamin B12 (min) 1 000 mg./kg
Pyridoxine (min) 1 400 mg./kg
Vitamin C (min) 40 000 mg./kg
Choline (min) 100 000 mg./kg
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Avi-sup Twinpack -
One container of multivitamins and one
with Minerals
and Trace elements AT1 200g £4.35, AT2 700g
£12.45
Avi-sup Soluble Multivitamins - designed
for all types of birds for
daily use in the drinking water especially in the breeding season.
AS1 100gm £3.60
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Avi-sup - PROBIOTICS
High quality live beneficial
bacteria specilally selected for all avian species now available
at affordable prices.
The gastro intestinal tract of healthy
birds is populated by beneficial bacteria. As soon as your bird
is under any kind of stress, if it is a young baby bird, if it
is ill and if it has been given antibiotics, your bird is at
risk because the pathogenic bacteria multiply and take over most
of the surface area in the gastro intestinal tract.
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Contains : Lactobacillus acidophilus
Streptococci faecium
Bifidobacteria
Mannanoligosaccharide
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By feeding them Avi-Probiotics, you can
ensure that the beneficial bacteria
that have been destroyed are quickly replaced before the pathogenic
bacteria
have a chance to take over.
Feed daily to handreared young birds,
stressed birds and birds that have been
on antibiotics. Feed weekly to all other birds as a preventative
measure, to
increase immunity and reduce the risk of enteric infections.
Feeding Instructions : Add only one
heaped teaspoon to one kilogram of softfood
or fruit and vegetables.
PR1 100g £3.92
Other Aviplus Products
Gamebird Starter - A diet for the first two weeks in the life of
newly
hatched pheasants, quail and exotic ducks. GA1 1kg £4.65
Avi-stress - Excellent for birds under any sort of stress
ST1 100g £3.92
Avi-Moult - A vitamin, lysine and methionine preparation
that can be given in
drinking water before and during times of moulting to relieve
stress and enhance
healthy new feather growth.
AM1 100g £ 2.25
Avi-med Safe Sprout - This is used to prevent dangerous fungi and
moulds
from growing on soaking and sprouting seeds.SSP1 250 g
£2.78
Avi-cal (Calcium &
Phosphorus) - A calcium supplement
for birds,
with the correct calcium/phosphorus ratio. AC1 500 g
£ 4.16
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Multivitamins
Excellent for pheasants |
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Calcicare 40
A complete Mulivitamin and mineral mix
used by many top pheasant breeders. Used with great success on
peacock pheasants.
1516 500g £
15.99
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Minerlised Bird Grits
2099 200g £ 0.69 2108 750g £
1.29 2102 4kg £3.99
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VETARK - Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements
A well known range of excellent
products
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NUTROBAL
- A vitamin/mineral supplement specifically
formulated as a high calcium "balancer " to correct
diets deficient in calcium (ie. most diets). Of special value
in hand rearing of the long-legged species, but useful for all
species. When mixed at 2:1 with ACE-High it provides the ideal
blend for breeding parrots. Deficiency in calcium and vitamin
D3 can prevent birds laying and cause soft shell or rickets.
The Calcium:Phosphorus ratio is very
important in ensuring healthy bone growth, and this supplement
with a Ca:P ratio in the range of 40-50:1 is extremely valuable
in correcting deficient diets.
VET1- 100g
- £5.52 VET2 - 250g - £11.22
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AVIMIX is a readymix of Nutrobal and ACE-High in the
ratio 2:1, it is packed in 50g tubs to be suitable for the bird
keeper with only a small number of birds. This provides the ideal
mix for birds whether growing or breeding, or simply being kept
as pets. Bird keepers with larger collections can continue to
mix their own using the Nutrobal and ACE-High.
We have found that putting an amount
into the palm of a clean hand or on a knife point and blowing
it at food, scatters it well and increases palatability by spreading
it well. Some aviculturists like to use Avimix in a pepper pot,
this also works well. Careless use leaves some food with a lot,
and some with a little, which allows animals to avoid it. VET5 -
50g - £5.58
VET6 - 250g - £17.71
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ACE-HIGH - This is a special vitamin supplement to which
is formulated to provide high levels of those vitamins shown
to be involved in aiding animals such as fish, birds or reptiles
through periods of stress and disease. Primarily it is a mixture
of the vitamins A,C & E along with smaller quantities of
other vitamins and minerals including B1, B2, B6 & B12.
Vitamins A and E are both involved in
helping the body resist infection. Vitamin A is essential for
maintenance of healthy mucous membranes such as the mouth, lungs
and gut. Vitamin E has been shown to boost the immune mechanism
in some species. Vitamin C is used up very quickly by the body
when it is under stress and so must be replaced.
Certain groups, particularly psittacines
and Australian finches have been shown to have a high requirement
for vitamin A which is often not met from the diet. Seed eating
psittacines actually get very little, even those getting fruit
and carrots and the traditional sources of green foods and rape
seed must convert the dietary carotene to vitamin A, a process
which may well not be very efficient. Deficiency problems range
from poor fertility and hatchability in eggs, to snuffles, pneumonia,
feather plucking in adults and even kidney disease leading to
sciatic paralysis.
VET3 - 50g - £6.08 VET4 - 100g
- £9.48
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BSP Vitamin drops - BSP
stands for broad spectrum. Like all of our other vitamins these
are high potency vitamin drops so that only a small amount is
needed. They are ideal for medicating water for birds which won't
accept vitamins any other way, particularly suited to the softbills
but fine for any bird. The level of vitamin A is high so even
psittacines will do well on them.
All of the small seed eaters are easily
supplemented with BSP via the water. Palatability as with all
of our products is good and effective levels are taken. Several
very successful budgerigar breeders are using the product to
very good effect (to the extent of sending unsolicited testimonials).
Some owners like to use water soluble
products only once a week, with the 'average' suspicious bird
this means that on those days the bird may simply not drink.
When you use BSP we recommend that you do so every day.
VET7 - 50ml - £5.46
VET8 - 100ml - £8.57
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AVIPRO - Avipro is a probiotic
combination of bacteria, enzymes, electrolytes and vitamins.
Its high palatability means it can be added to the drinking water
making its use simple for all species of birds.
AVIPRO contains:
· Two species of Lactobacillus with Streptococcus faecium
which live for a short time in the birds gut, helping to stabilise
the pH.
· Yeasts to provide a source of amino acids and vitamins.
· lipase (often low in young birds), amylase, protease
and cellulase.
· electrolytes to aid in maintaining adequate levels in
birds with diarrhoea which lose electrolytes
It is unnecessary and may be undesirable
for "artificial" strains of Lactobacillus to colonise
the psittacine gut, it is only necessary for them to live a short
time to establish the right conditions. By their combined action
the ingredients of AVIPRO help to create and maintain slightly
acidic conditions in the gut to provide the correct background
for the birds own flora to restabilise.
For general use as a routine nutritional
aid, 1 scoop per 200ml drinking water can be used. This is especially
useful when birds diets are being changed or when moulting, or
when birds are being conditioned for the breeding season.
For support of stressed birds use 4g
(one scoop) per 100ml of drinking water. This is also useful
for final conditioning and post-racing support of racing pigeons.
A very important aspect of this is the use by the veterinary
surgeon in birds which are under treatment with antibacterials
where the normal flora may be unbalanced and a bloom of inappropriate
bacteria may occur causing perhaps haemorrhagic enteritis. This
use has proved particularly important in macaws.
Do not use probiotics in diets with
a high proportion of milk solids. We have had no problems associated
with this but other lactobacillus products have, therefore we
caution against it.
VET10 - 100g - £8.26
VET11 - 300g - £18.71
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AVIPRO PAEDIATRIC - Following
the highly successful launch of our water soluble probiotic AVIPRO,
we are now pleased to announce that AVIPRO PAEDIATRIC specifically
designed for baby birds is available.AVIPRO Paediatric is specially
formulated for use with neonates (and milk based feeds) and contains
a lower level of Lactobacillus with a much enhanced level of
enzymes.
AVIPRO is a probiotic with Lactobacillus
which helps to colonise the bowel of birds, this is intended
to be a short lived colonisation to allow the birds normal gut
bacteria to establish (or re-establish after stress, illness
or treatment with antibiotics). AVIPRO also contains electrolytes
and dextrose to support and help to rehydrate the bird which
may have been stressed. Because many aviculturists use milk-based
products in their handrearing formula (eg Milupa) we developed
AVIPRO PAEDIATRIC to help in the support of chicks being handreared.
AVIPRO PAEDIATRIC contains a lower level
of bacteria, just to act as a more normal background level, the
most important aspect is the inclusion of enzymes (protease,
cellulase and amylase) to begin digestion of the food. This gives
a valuable boost to the more compromised chicks or those traditionally
thought of as difficult to handrear. One effect of using the
product is to help maintain the more acidic gut conditions necessary
to inhibit Candida and E.coli.
The regime for use:
At 3-4 hours post hatch when most handrearers
just use water, use a solution of AVIPRO at recommended dilution
levels. This gives the gut an initial boost in establishing the
correct conditions for the natural bacteria. A starter pack of
AVIPRO is included in the 50g pots of AVIPRO PAEDIATRIC.
Then use a quarter teaspoon of AVIPRO
PAEDIATRIC per 2oz (60g) of made up food. This should be used
in every feed until approximately 3-4 weeks of age, possibly
longer. Making the feed up with water.
At 3-4 weeks when perhaps other foods
are being introduced AVIPRO can be reintroduced in the water
and used to make up feeds until the chick is weaned (starting
at 9wks in many species of parrot).VET12 - 50g - £8.36
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CRITICAL CARE FORMULA - CCF
is the ultimate product for parenteral nutrition of birds (it
is also used with great effect in reptiles). The product is a
mixture of selected short chain maltodextrins (derived from corn
starch) and a protein concentrate supplemented with amino acids.
The protein source has been designed to match the constituents
of whole egg protein.
Anorexic patients or birds with wasting
problems can be helped during treatment by parenteral feeding.
This needs to be sufficiently often to be effective yet not too
often that it compounds the problem due to stress. CCF was formulated
with this in mind.
Based on available papers and our own
extensive trials with specialist veterinarians we established
a blend which achieved what we wanted. Each 100g contains 361
kcal of energy and 14.4g of protein, this aims to provide 4g
protein/100kcal. Made up at 1: 2 it provides 1.4kcal/ml, the
osmolality is carefully regulated to ensure absorption.
The product should be made up freshly
each time. It has great benefits over commonly used liquid formulations
of easily digestible carbohydrates in that it is a powder and
can be stored until a small amount is needed. The liquid formulations
used previously generally only provided carbohydates and also
had to be thrown away 24 hours after opening. CCF in powder form
remains stable for months provided that the container is sealed
and also provides a suitable protein source which counters the
hypoproteinaemic states of catabolism, which in birds especially
is a major problem.
CCF is used at a dose rate of one scoop
per 100g of animal per day, mixing one scoop of CCF with two
scoops of water and administering by gavage tube - usually split
into two or three feeds.
CCF has also been used with great success
by pigeon owners for pre- and post-race conditioning, here it
can be simply added to the drinking water.
Contraindications, warnings
Because CCF is designed to be used at a particular concentration
it is dangerous to make the solution more concentrated. Highly
concentrated solutions may not move through the gut, sticking
to the gut wall and encouraging bacterial growth, this has been
found to be a problem in reptiles due to their anatomy and physiology.Such
a hyperosmotic solution may draw fluids into the gut and effectively
dehydrate the patient.
VET13 - 150g - £10.13
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Calcium Lactate
provides an extra calcium source which
can be added to the drinking water for birds at risk of calcium
deficiency. It is used in conjunction with vitamin supplements
which provide the vitamin D3 needed for calcium absorption.
VET28 -
140g - £8.20
ZOLCAL-D can be used in support of all breeding birds
or birds with a calcium problem such as chicks with rickets,
folding fractures or egg bound birds or hypocalcaemic birds(especially
common in afrcan greys). Nutrobal will often be used long term
but ZOLCAL-D may be used when they are first seen.
VET25 - 120ml -£5.99 VET24500ml
£19.28
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Delivery Charge
Up to 1kg £2.95 1kg to 50kg only £3.95
All prices include Vat
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