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STEVENS - PINK-BACKED PELICAN



Table 1. Different diets used to hand-rear chicks. The diet given at each

weekly stage can vary according to each individual chick’s progress.



Diet A Tierpark Berlin


Week 1. Baby mice enriched with Enzynormforte, a digestive enzyme.


Week 2. The addition of small freshwater fish and a vitamin and mineral



mixture.


Weeks 3 & 4. Freshwater fish only and vitamin and mineral mixture.



Diet B



Longleat (1998)



Week 1.



Whole fresh trout fry, whole fresh whitebait and scalded sprats whole or

cut in half, plus Avipro vitamin and mineral supplement.



Week 2.


Week 3.



Whole scalded sprats and Avimix only.


Scalded sprats and small mackerel, whole or half a fish, depending on size

(tail cut off), plus Avimix.



Week 4.



Whole mackerel only complete with tail, plus Avimix and later on Mazuri


fish-eater tablet.



Diet C



Birdworld (1996)



Week 1.



Liquidised sprat, mashed carp and pinky mice spoon-fed to chick, plus

flaked cod and chopped day-old chicks.



Week 2.



Anchovies, chopped sprats and chopped day-old chicks, plus the

introduction of small whole sprats. Avimix.



Week 3.


Week 4.



Scalded whole sprats, plaice fillets and day-old chicks.


Scalded sprats and mackerel.



Diet D



Longleat (2001)



Week 1


Week 2


Week 3


Week 4



Scalded sprats cut in half diagonally. Avimix mixed in water.


Scalded whole sprats. Avimix mixed in water.


Scalded whole sprats and mackerel tails. Avimix mixed in water.


Scalded sprats and mackerel. One Mazuri fish-eater tablet per day.



Diet E



Longleat (current diet)



Week 1



Whole fresh carp or trout fry, warmed in hot water and sprinkled with

Avimix. Protexin probiotic once a day.



Week 2



Trout fry and the introduction of scalded small sprats, whole or cut in half.

The chicks are weaned off trout fry during the course of the week. Avimix

sprinkled on food.



Week 3



Scalded whole sprats with their tails on and the introduction of small

mackerel with their tails cut off. Avimix sprinkled on food.



Week 4



Scalded sprats and later mackerel or herring only complete with their tails

plus one Mazuri fish-eater tablet per day.



