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Help with a doe please

Joined Jul 2010
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Yoakum, TX
I have this 5 yr old doe who has recently fanwed and is walking funny. It's like she is weak in her back legs when she's walking but when she's standing or running she's fine. We put her fawns in a 8x16x2ft box where she can go back and forth but the fawns stay and ever since she's had her fawns she got alot more jittery. I'm thinking that she just might have worked herself up too much and got weak but in the back of my mind I have to worry about her but hopefully nothing is too terribly wrong. Anyone had this same problem or know what is wrong please help me out.



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Yes we have one with the same systems. She started limping real bad on her left rear leg. I thought she had injured the leg. I knocked her down checked her out and found nothing. Shortly after she couldn't hardly stand up on either back leg. She was losing weight rapidly. We knocked her down again and when she was down I thought maybe she had slipped a disc from giving birth. I pulled her back legs straight back in line with her spine and gave her a quick jerk. Her back popped big time. We started feeding her some probiotics to help with the weight lose. After that she seemed to be doing better. Then it moved to her right rear leg even though it was not as bad. It has to be some kind of nerve problem. She has been medicated to the max. This has been over a six week period. She has put some weight back on but she is still not normal. I'm clueless as to what this could be. Hopefully someone will have some insight. Here is a pic of her at her worst.
 

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Well I took her fawns out of the fawn box and let them run with her and she has seemed to calm down a bunch. Checked her again this morning and looks a whole lot better. She's was a pretty wild deer to begin with so I'm thinking she just overheated. We were feeding them in the same box as the fawns so maybe she was going back and forth to feed but wasn't eating. I moved the feed back to the self-feeders and see how she does. I'm hoping that's all it was.
 
I had a doe that had the same symptons you have been talking about. She acted the same.She was 10 year old the last four years she only acted that way when she had fawns. She was bottle fed I came home Monday she tried to come up the hill and fell over I ran down and with in 4 min she was dead. Maybe we all can learn what do do if a deer acts like this!
 

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