Doe fawn not gaining weight

Luv2watchemgro · Sep 19, 2013

We have a doe fawn approximately 3 months old. I cant get her to eat any textured feed. She will eat grapes and carrots , browse and alfalfa. We started giving her two bottles a day trying to put weight on her.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Daren Lewis

Lawrence Creek Whitetails

Tcountywhitetails · Sep 19, 2013

What does her stool look like?

shallow creek whitetails · Sep 19, 2013

We had the same problem with our buck and doe fawn we started giving them both scours treatment in each bottle 2 times per day for approximately 12 days and they took to it just fine and they started putting weight on turns out they were both sick and both recovered now I have a 238 inch 2 year old and a very well off doe .just a suggestion.

dtala · Sep 19, 2013

what has she been eating for the last month??

Luv2watchemgro · Sep 19, 2013

Her stool looks normal, pellets, they are not hard . We have been feeding her shredded carrots, grapes, apples, leaves, and some rice bran. She will nibble on her textured feed but she is not eating a lot of it.

We have not done a fecal on her but we did give her 1cc ivermectin, we thought she might be wormy.

We have 7 more doe fawns in the same pen and they are all fat, sassy , and eating very well.

I forgot to mention in my original post, we felt like she may have been a little premature when born.

She couldn't walk for about 5 days.

After that she did really well then about 2 weeks ago she started looking really thin and I noticed she wasn't eating as well as the others.

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