Advice on newborn baby!!!

A good friend of ours had his very first fawns last night...2 doe fawns. One is perfect and the other has a badly deformed nose.



She only has one nostril (the other one actually curls down into her mouth and does not take air) and her lip is clefted. Kind of like those poor children that you see on the Smiles Train (I think that is what it's called). Her teeth are not normal either where the cleft is. They are pointed. I also saw that on one front hoof that she doesn't seem to have the the "hard" shell on it. It's red--like bare skin red and raw. She does limp on it too.



I don't have any pictures of her, but I can tell you that it is not pretty. She seem healthy and alert and otherwise good. He wanted to know our advice and as usual Randy and I had 2 different opinions. I say take her to a vet and put her down before they get more attached and have to do it at a later time.



Obviously, she could never be sold to anyone with that kind of deformity. I just have a hard time with animals suffering.



I would like to have some more opinions....I know it's hard without a picture, but she does took like a baby born with a hair lip. The lip actually grew with a split and only one working nostril. I just don't know if a person should let her go on.



I feel so bad for him with this being the first time he has fawns.....what a bad first experience. I told him to talk it over with his wife and they will have to make their own judgement call.



Thanks for any input on this

Yes, I totally agree with putting her down....I just wouldn't want to get attached and then have to do it like I had to do last year when Randy wouldn't let me put that blind one down until I just did it 2 months later. It's just too hard on a person. I just hate to see her suffer also. Her life just wouldn't be normal not to mention if she has a genetic defect in her DNA.



Thanks to all that commented....appreciate your input.

I don't think he would mind if I put the breeding cuz we have some of the same breeding and I would not hestitate to put it out there. She is a MO Geronimo daughter on the top and a MO granddaughter on the bottom and she was bred to Otis.



I have an Otis fawn myself out of double MO Geronimo breeding and she is as healthy as a horse.



MO Geronimo bloodlines as such old lines I'm sure nothing is wrong there and Otis is going to be 5 (?) this year and I know he's been breeding for 2-3 years.



Personally, I would put by "buck" on bad luck. I think you hit it right on the nail Mitch when you say that we all know what should be done....thanks.



Just an early lesson in deer farming (and any livestock) for him that all don't make and all aren't supposed to make it.

Good question