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blueish cast to her eyes

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Whitetail Deer Farmer

Joined Sep 2009
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Northern, Minnesota
I get many of these emails asking for help because of my fawn healt page. But here is one I don,t know the answer for.



I am currently bottle feeding a 2 to 3 week old whitetail fawn. She is doing well, other than a bit of pasty poo. I have been giving her yogurt with every bottle, and also giving her free choice dirt, and it is slowly firming up over the last two days. she is still very bright and energetic, and feeding well. I am feeding the Ultra 24 from sav-a-caf. My question is that she has come to me with the blueish cast to her eyes. she seems to get along well, but I am not sure if she is seeing as clearly as she should, and am worried about giving her antibiotics sub q with her gut bacteria still not right. I know there are antibiotic eye drops available, and i was wondering if that would be a good substitute to treat her eyes.

thanks!

Lori Robinson
 
If the sclera (whites of the eye) are red with alot of engorged vessels than you probably have an infection/ corneal ulcer in this animal. If the blue haze is inside the eyeball then it could be a persistant vessel to the lens( supposed to close off at birth) or a juvenile cataract. Anterior uveitis is also a consideration but not likely. If you have a vet locally that can examine the animal I would recommend that you call them. Eyes get bad in a hurry and get better in a hurry. If the fawn is squinting like the eye hurts, has ocular discharge from the eye, or excessive tearing than you could try triple antibiotic opthalmic ointment twice daily for a week and monitor. If the eyeball itself is not inflamed and there is no discharge from the eye, I would suggest you do nothing. Good luck.
 
The eye loks quiet, not inflamed. There is no discharge, this looks like an intraocular problem and I would guess that this fawn has had this pigmentation all along. I would do nothing with this eye and monitor the pigmentation. If the fawn seems to be loosing sight(which I don't think she will) than contact a vet to examine the eye. I think this is just an abnormal pigmentation of the iris and the animal may loose the blue pigmentation as it grows.:)
 
Most fawns, and most mammals are born with bluish eyes. The pupil appears dialated but nothing more, unless Im reading the small image wrong. DrJay seems to know his eye stuff!
 

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