Yearling doe with bad cut on leg!!

I thought I would post this for others who may have the same problem.

A month ago I ran my yearling does through the chute to give them their EHD vaccination. All went smooth except I noticed one doe(MY FAVORITE!) had a little blood on her leg as she ran out of the barn. I looked all over the chute and didn't see any blood. I went out to the pen I had put them in (which was 4 foot fescue), and she wasn't limping so I just let it go. Two days later I went out to feed and she was not OK. Limping with a very damaged front leg.

I put her down and this is what I found.

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I was not happy with myself. I trimmed the hide that was just hanging loose and cleaned the wound with some peroxide. I was going to stitch the hide back in place, but I had waited two days and it was all dried up. I gave her 2 cc of Draxxin took the pictures and reversed her. TO say the least I was very disappointed with myself and embarrassed to post these pictures when it happened. 4 days later she had about stopped limping and was dooing a great job keeping it clean and the flies away. I gave her 1.5cc of Draxxin @ day 5 because I was afraid infection would set in and honestly I felt I wasn't doing enough to help. She has continued to heal and last night when I was taking some pictures of the bucks she came out of the tall grass and let me get a good look at her. Matt is very happy now!! If you zoom in on the pictures you will see that she is healing quite good.

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I was very concerned that the hide would never grow back and I would have problems this winter with frost bite or something, but as you can see it is closing up very well. Durring this whole process I wanted to do more, but I kept reading old posts that said deer are tough leave wounds be and let them take care of it themselves. Make sure flies are not a problem and let them do it. I just want to thank all of you that give your advice and experience here on deerfarmer. I will continue to watch her and be on here with more pictures



Thanks,

Thanks Reed and DC

Reed I read the post of your buck about 5000 times when I was trying to figure out what to do. I was going to wrap it, but you didn't have luck with it so I didn't. Thanks again for sharing yours. If you have any updated pictures please share them.

I also have a home made chute!?? I have a few ideas where it happened.



1. The last tunnel isn't mounted to the chute so I can slide it out of the way to get to the back of the deer. When she ran through it was the first time it had ever moved.

2. When she went into the chute she didn't just walk she jumped and hit the exit door very hard. In the excitement I dropped the floor and threw slide door open to get to her head and put a hood on her. Trying to remember I think her legs were still up when I slid the door open.

3. I have a 3 foot man door that they run through to get out of the barn and into the pens. When she left the chute she hit the corner of the door very hard. Its a cheap pole barn door so the metal edge bent a little.



To sum it all up;

There was very little blood in the chute. I basically would not have found it if I hadn't known where her leg was. I think when I opened the sliding door her leg got caught between the door and the side of the chute. I think this was a small cut that left hide hanging. Then when I dropped her and she hit the barn door the hide got caught in the metal edge of the door and ripped the hide down. That was when I saw the flash of red that got me looking in the first place.



How to stop this from happening again;

Let the guy lifting the side gate to put the back press on the deer do his job before I get all excited and rip the door open and another deers leg!! This was only the 4th time we had run deer through this system, and the first time with the yearling's.

If I can get my head out of my butt and calm down it will help! You got to love rookie deer farmers.

Gator Bait might be right! She is one of my calmest does and you know how they seam to get the most worked up. I though she was going to flip over in the chute before we could get her calmed down and the hood on her!

Maybe it isn't my fault after all!??