"troublesome" fawn

If the fawn will drink water and you are concerned about him/her not getting enough nutrients, try making the water 1/3 milk and 2/3 water and teach the fawn to drink out of a bowl. Eventually move the fawn to 100% milk out of the bowl. Here are some pictures of how we did it. We started by taking the bowl to the fawn’s mouth and through multiply feedings moved the bowl closer to the ground... now she drinks out the bowl on the ground.

This is off the subject some so sorry about that. But if you have fawns of different ages the older ones will teach a fawn to drink from a bowl or eat grass and such.

If you want to teach them to drink yourself and they do drink from a bottle they of course know what a nipple is. We will tease them with the nipple and make them follow it while dipping it into the bowl of water. Once it is in the bowl let them suck from it. After a few times of that they will suck from the bowl without the nipple.

So this brings an idea to mind for those of you who let fawns drink all the milk they want. Fill a pail and let them drink until they are done. Several fawns can drink from one pail at a time also. Forget the bucket feeding idea with multiple nipples on it.

[QUOTE the vet said he got too much bacteria from switching him from goats milk that the breeder was feeding and is too hard for me to obtain to formula. [/QUOTE]



I have heard vets say this before also. They have said that switching from a replacer to either goat milk or cow milk was less risky from a bacteria stand point than switching from real milk to a replacer. So it sounds like more than one thought from a vet with the same opinion.

I am not a fan of switching things around very much. But I am not a fan of milk replacers either. The feeding schedule is great as a guide. But the guide is only a perfect tool if you gave a copy for the fawn to read prior to starting it on the bottle Not being mean just joking. But the schedule is just a guide. We have fawns of all ages here this year for some reason. (and we hate it) But we have a fawn that is a week and a half older that the youngest one, and she drinks half as much because of her size and how she didn't do so well when we tried to up the amount per feeding. She needs a slower schedule I guess. We also have another fawn that is the largest on the farm and she has never taken more than 6 ozs per feeding. But she loves the pellets and greens.

The drooling is another issue. I have no idea why she is drooling for you. But I guess if I would use meds for 5 weeks in a row I would be a drooling ***** also. I think I would have stopped the meds long ago and let things run it's course. But that is just me.