Deer Farmer

Porterwhitetail

I have been bottle feeding my fawns since 1992 with various degrees of success. I have found that goat's milk works the best for me. However, I will be unable to get any goat's milk this year. For those of you have successfully raised bottle-fed fawns, what types of milk powders have worked best?

HAB Whitetails

We have been using Land-O-Lakes kid replacer.

Porterwhitetail

Would you recommend Land-o-Lakes kid replacer over deer-specific milk replacers such as Zoologic or Fox Valley?

B_Whitetails

This year i am using Fox Valley and i know many farmers who have had awsome success with it. Thats just my opinion. Good Luck!

gcw matt

I have used Zoologic for the last 2 years. I go mostly by the directions in the box and move them to 3 times a day as fast as I can. I have never had any problems with loose stool. I have a small farm, and I have only raised 8 fawns on the bottle but I won't use anything else. Also, Dr. Shipley has some good fawn guidelines on the Illinois deer farmers site that is very helpful. http://www.ildfa.com/

ddwhitetails

I will be using regular red cap (store bought) pasturized milk this year....the Millers (RDM Wildbunch Whitetails) did it last year and had the healthiest fawns they have ever had to date....now they also did feed the fawns all they could eat and they said they turned out to be the biggest...healthiest and earliest weaning fawns they ever have had!

virgil

I have used kid milk replacer and lamb milk replacer both seem to work fine no problems, but this year i'm also going yo try cow milk to see if i can increase my fawn size.

allenb

Red cap milk mixed with 1/5 the ammount of Sav-A-Kid milk replacer you would normally mix in water does very well.

PaintedMeadowsBJs

Yes...We are going to ... Red cap milk for two to three weeks than powder replacer added slow.

Arrowhead Whitetails

We will be using Fox Valley again this year. Last years fawns are the biggest that we have ever had. Most are bigger than the does from the previous year. It is a great product. Good luck to everyone this year with your fawns.

Antlershed

I used sav-a-caf Grade A ultra 24 last year, when i weaned the fawns they were about the same size as the mother fed ones, so i guess it did well. i am going to use the sav a caf goat kid replacer this year because I have a lot of fawns to feed this year and i can get it in 25lb. bags, and its cheaper.

Rustyblaster

All this talk about red cap and now I think I am ready to try it. Has anyone used unpasturized milk straight from the farm?

ddwhitetails

Yes Rusty I did use the unpasturized milk straight from my buddies farm....right out of the milk tank........it worked great and everything was fine....but I'm told you are living a little dangerously by doing this.....being it is unpasturized all it takes is one of the cows to have some type of sickness and you could wipe out your entire fawn herd for the year........I just can't live with that chance being out there........but otherwise like I said it did work ok for me last year.....

PaintedMeadowsBJs

Johne's disease (pronounced "yo-knees") is why it needs pasturized.

Rustyblaster

Good point! A cropless year of fawns would be detrimental to the ability to afford feed in the future. Maybe pasturized is way to go.