Hand-Rearing Resource Center

Introducing a unique website with innovative web based forms to easily expand beyond our borders for collaboration and mentoring in the art and science of hand-rearing wildlife. Advisors from zoo, wildlife rehabilitation, veterinary, and academic communities outlined criteria and developed a working model for data collection into a web based hand-rearing resource center. Phase I online data collection focuses on select mammalian species, working initially through SSPs, TAGs, AAZV, and AZVT communication liaisons for dissemination, followed by review and summarization of details of formulae and supplements, weight gains, developmental milestones, medical history and formula problems. Additionally, we are partnering with the Avian Resource Center (Burford, Oxfordshire, UK) in making available avian incubation and hand-rearing summaries that have already been compiled. Working collaboratively with aviculturists, we envision expanding these baseline incubation and rearing protocols and formats, as well as records of developmental milestones, for broader application to reptiles and amphibians.