2 year old buck tounge rot

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I have a 2 year old buck that has been slobbering a lot, I have been watching him for a few weeks. Today I went out to feed and he is really skinny and wasn't acting right. So I tranqed him and found that his tounge so infected that over half of it was gone. any ideas of what causes this?


 
 

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I have lost about 6 deer this year, mostly fawns to this same thing. Im not sure what to do to stop this. Any suggestions redgolds? I would greatly appreciate it.
 
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From what I can see from the pics, it looks like fusobacterium.




I think Adam is spot on with his assessment. To find out for sure you can remove a small sample and have it cultured at a lab. My guess is you will find some (T. pyogenes) in there as well. These two bacterial strains love to hang out together as they are both anaerobic bacteria.
 
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I have a 2 year old buck that has been slobbering a lot, I have been watching him for a few weeks. Today I went out to feed and he is really skinny and wasn't acting right. So I tranqed him and found that his tounge so infected that over half of it was gone. any ideas of what causes this?




What state are you from?
 
when I went out to check on him this morning, he didn't survive the night. I did an necropsy and found his lungs were in bad shape so he was to far gone. I found in his heart a yellowish clot looking thing (about 3 of them). I will post pics of it in a bit. not sure what it was. Has anyone else seen or heard of that? And could this tongue rot be Fusobacterium?
 
Here is what I found in the heart
 

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Fuso abscesses are common around the heart and it is a deadly pneumonia causing bacteria.
 
Start by vaccinating and boosting your herd especially all your doe. Then once yearly in early March. Don't vaccinate a animal that is already sick and expect any immune response. There are many antibiotics that can be used to treat semptyms. Draxxin, Nuflor, and penicillin would be my first three choices. Sulfadimethozine( SulfamedG- mix powder thoroughly in a separate jug with water before adding to troughs) can be use in drinking water as a treatment and preventative but is very hard on a deer's rumen. My recommendation is use the Red Ridge vaccine so you don't have to use the medicine chest.
 
the yellow you are seeing is a serum clot. 


likely he was anemic and that is why it settled out like that in the heart.


really has nothing to do with the fuso
 
Here at Scenic Ride Whitetails we consider the vaccine from Red Ridge an extremely valuable tool that directly effects our bottom line due to a huge decrease in animal losses... In 2012 we buried over 20 bucks from various age groups..That fall we built a corral system capable of handling bucks and we starting the vaccine program..In fall 2013 we lost only one buck and so far in 2014 only three to illnesses...Very good product !!!
 
After talking with the vet today, he said fuso doesn't attack the tongue. It attacks the throat and esophagus of deer. So he don't think this is fuso. Any other ideas
 
"doesn't attack the tongue"    .....Can anyone confirm, if that is true?
 
fuso will attack near any part of a deer from the front of mouth, to face/jaw, to neck, to sho, and hooves.  Pick a spot. Looks like fuso to me.
 

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