Baby flying-fox in care: this is Caltrops on day 5

Caltrops is a baby Grey-Headed Flying-Fox who fell off his mum somehow. I didn't get a full story because the person who found him dropped him off to a vet and didn't leave a story or contact details.

He's doing well in care and is alert and becoming more active and interactive. He's feeding well though he continues with some lingering hydration issues which are resolving.
He does, however have a hernia which bulges out if he has too much to eat or drink in one sitting. We're sorting this out by feeding him bum upwards like if he was hanging off his mum, with smaller and more frequent feeds. This reduces the pressure in his abdomen and reduces the bulging of the bowel through the weak abdominal muscles in the area of the inguinal canal.
The inguinal canal is so the baby's testicles can descend from the abdomen into the scrotum. It closes soon after birth to prevent the testicles from going back into the abdomen. If the bat has weak abdominal muscles around the inguinal canal, some bowel can protrude through the opening.
On the bat's mum, the baby would be hanging vertically from her (bum up) all the time. Baby would feed a little bit now and a little bit later and a little bit more when he woke up from a nap. He wouldn't be having larger feeds 5-6 times a day, and he wouldn't ever have a fat full belly.
In care we need them to have fat full bellies so we don't spend 24 hours a day feeding them. We need them to take enough nutrition in one sitting to last 4-5 hours. Most babies do well with this regime but the occasional one has some problem with hernias. This resolves over a few weeks once the inguinal canal has closed.
Unrecognised, it can become a problem and lead to herniated bowel strangulating or causing pain, requiring repair.
Caltrops is doing fine.

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