Mother abandons fawns

Had a first time mother give birth Monday morning to 2 fawns, a buck and a doe, she would not clean up fawns and would run away from them, after 20-30 mins we went out and pulled fawns, cleaned them up fed them a tube of first catch. also fed them 4oz of milk, a couple hours later was able to get some cow cloustrum from dairy farmer down the road (went to field and actually milked it from the cow that freshened that morning) and fed 3oz of that and 3oz again later that evening, started on regular milk this morning.



These fawns are Rolex babies out of a PJ/Maxbo daughter, keeping them alive is really important to our farms future, what would you have done differently or still do at this point, as far as I can tell the fawns are doing fine with the exception that the buck fawn only drank 3 of the 4 oz of mik this morning, maybe not a big deal we will see with other feedings today.



Rick

she is in a pen with other does that have already fawned, she was also in pen with fawning mothers last year as a yearling

it did appear that another doe was going to try and clean them but we knew she had no more colostrum so we pulled them

on one hand they are amazing how they try to take care of each other, on the other hand when one is sick or injured they can be the meanest to each other I have ever seen

the buck fawn drank all 4oz at the noon feeding, good news, tomorrow we will startg increasing to 5oz