2 questions about new born fawns

On the scours question. I know you can use pumkin mixed with the milk to help out. Last year I used a product called vitraits (I think thats the spelling) anyhow got it from my inlaws who use it on their dairy cows when I calf gets the scours worked great just follow the directions.

You need to stimulate a fawn until they don't need your help. This is different with every fawn. This is one of the main reasons we keep fawns seperated from each other for the first few weeks, not just so they imprint with you but to watch there bedding for wet spots or droppings. You will need to make sure they pee every time you feed until you start seeing those wet spots in their pen. I have seen this happen in as little as a few days to a couple of weeks. The droppings will only have to be stimulated once every day. This may take several weeks for them to be totally independent. I have learned to watch for actions of the fawn when they want you to make them go #2. Some will want you to do it for along time and others seem to relish their independance from your help. The first month or so you can count on fawns having loose stools but that doesn't always mean scours. If a fawn eats to much, tries something new, or even has something stressful happen she can have a loose stool. Sometimes a teaspoonful of raw pumpkin (no seasonings just raw pumpkin) in the bottle will stiffen that soft or loose stool up in a feeding or two. Making sure they have an abundent supply of fresh earth (not day old dried out dirt) will help with bacteria in the stomach and can help keep them firm. With this said if you have violent repeated stools. Watery or with blood in it then you have to worry with scours. Depending on the other symptoms the treatment may vary. Rick

I strrted putting powdered probotics in every bottle last year and did not have any trouble with a single fawn get scours or any trouble at all also used Albon the first 3 or 4 day's. I stimulate the fawn's untill I start finding droppings in there pen, I keep each fawn in a 4x4 pen untill they are around 3 weeks old.

We have found a box of cheap wet wipes in each stall helps stimulate a little quicker and makes clean up a breeze.

We also use a fawn probiotic gel at birth and then switch to the powder probiotic after that. We haven't had any trouble with scours. We use a red cap chart we got from Rick Browning (Browing Whitetails). It might not be the exact chart Rick gave us because we have tweaked it for our personal use. Once again thanks Rick. Here is the chart we use. Everybody has their own methods for bottle feeding this works for us.