Diy Baby Squirrel Formula

Links to online resources that sell formula and rehabilitation supplies to help you successfully care for an infant squirrel.

Diy baby squirrel formula. Commercial canine or feline milk replacer. All of these formulas should be stored in the refrigerator and warmed before feeding. You can feed a baby squirrel with a bottle and it will bond to you as its mother you have to keep baby squirrels warm and massage their genitals to make them pee. In the morning stir the formula and draw up enough syringes of cold formula for your first feeding of the day.

Instructions for preparing an interim homemade formula to sustain the baby until the formula arrives. Mixed baby cereal for every 3 oz. Store any unused squirrel milk in the refrigerator. For more from our veterinary reviewer on raising a baby squirrel including how to wean it and start it on solid foods keep reading.

Inappropriate fluids will make dehydration worse and or cause life threatening diarrhea. Use powdered puppy milk replacer if the baby squirrel is hydrated. The only fluids that should ever be offered to a baby squirrel are rehydration formulations for human infants such as pedialyte or a milk replacement formula appropriate for squirrels such as fox valley day one. You can use various milk replacers such as esbilac puppy milk replacer.

Each night mix up the amount of formula you will need the next day. If the baby squirrel doesn t require rehydration you can move straight to providing this formula. For each of the next feedings make the formula more concentrated by adding less water until you are mixing the formula at 1 part formula powder to 2 parts water. Use only distilled water when mixing the formula milk.

Or once you ve completed the process of rehydrating the squirrel you ll also shift to this formula. With powdered formula use very warm water stir. Combine all ingredients in a blender or large bowl. Use one part powder and four parts of water and mix what you will use at one feeding.

Microwave a coffee mug of water until it is hot but not boiling. 4 drops karo syrup or 1 2 tsp. Feeding baby squirrels with improper formula milk can lead to the development of the metabolic bone disease as well as other health problems. Mix one part of milk powder with 2 parts of distilled water.

Egg yolk added to enough homogenized milk to make 4 to 6 oz. To serve gently heat the desired amount until it is pleasantly warm to the touch. Baby squirrels need pedialyte and puppy milk to grow. Mix in all the lumps and use a strainer if you need to.

If you can t get pedialyte make a sugar salt water mixture instead. Make sure the mixture doesn t boil.