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RoperAB
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 Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:20 am Post subject: |
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| the_jersey_lilly_2000 wrote: |
| why wouldn't they be able to give antibiotics to the mother, and the fawn keep nursing? It happens with cows all the time. |
Im thinking there would be a good chance that the mother and fawn would not get hooked up together afterwards.
Example if you hunt the mother down, drug her,etc. Its probable going to be tramatic and the fawn probable wont just stand around waiting for you to work at its mother. Im thinking there is going to be some running involved?
But then I have never "doctored" wild deer so I dont know. I also wonder if one shot of long lasting pennicillian would do any good?
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Faster horses
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the_jersey_lilly_2000
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:42 am Post subject: |
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Well, if that's not an abcess, and for some reason ended up bein somethin genetic. I don't think I'd want that fawn runnin round to grow up and take a chance on eatin it later down the road either. Might be best to do away with both of em now in my opinion.
If it's infection, what kinda milk is that fawn gettin? Yuck. No way would I want that fawn to grow to an age where some one hunting and not knowing what it's been thru would kill it, process it, and feed it to his family.
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kolanuraven
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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I've worked on/with wild white tails here and 98% of the time it's pure trauma.
Once we had a tornado and somehow a fawn had gotten it's hoof cut on a piece of roof tin, we guessed, and it was infected horribly. Well...Momma Deer had placed the baby in the back of our hay barn. So my father goes in the barn and all hades breaks loose as he's scared them. We find the fawn...with Momma standing about 5 feet away. I think she wanted us to help. She never snorted , no threat moves....just watched.
So we bundled up the baby, off to the vet we go. I've got a ' cool' vet and it was after hours and we ended up having to amputate the fawns leg. We named her Ilean ( I lean cause I got only 3 legs!!) and taught her to stand using one of those bouncy baby slings you put in a door way! She lived in the basement in a refrig box and did pretty good. But other damages had taken their toll along with the infection as she was pretty beat up.
If the fawn of that doe is in good shape itself and you can run it down...you might can bottle feed it for a bit till it's able to get out. I've still got one that hangs around that was raised here....he loves bananas and vanilla wafers to this day!! We named him John Doe!
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Northern Rancher
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| Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I think that old doe needs about 100 grains of Montec G5 pain reliever-I don't use hardly any antibuiotocs on my cattle not about to run around trying to 'fix' a wild deer. I'm pretty sure it's a rupture anyway.
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RoperAB
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