Jun 2nd 2015, 08:35 PM
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Oct 2009 upstate ny Cervid: Whitetail Deer |
jadaho1027141433293540
Hi Chris,
I'm terrible sorry about your loss and though I'm new to deer farming, I ran a humane society for several years and have been raising all kinds of livestock. The symptoms you describe sound like hypothermia if they were in the rain + stress. Seen many critters doing this stretching out legs and neck, anything from kittens, game birds, lambs, calves, chicks. All do the same, stiffening, stretching, kind of arching the neck back, eventually*unresponsive. All newborns incl. humans can't regulate their bodytemp. well and while we sweat they are freezing. Drop in core body temp. changes metabolism, affects the whole system and they can't absorb nutrition to say it in short. Is it possible that they had gotten wet/cold and maybe draft in truck? There is info on www.hypothermia.org/animalhypo.htm, but maybe it was something else yet. Again sorry about this.
This was likely the case. Mine was so bad that he had to learn how to walk all over again. He was at deaths door without a doubt. This guy still acts weird so i am not sure if he had the blood cut off to his brain or what but he still has not stopped chewing in over 24 hours, its like he has a piece of gum in his mouth!
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