Emergency surgery...

That brings back memories doesn't it antlershed. I got to help matt take off a front leg and stitch up the flap. The doe did well and gave fawn that year then I bought her and unfortunately in may she did not get up from laying in the shed. She was a tame doe but not one I would walk up and rub all over while laying there. I gave her a while to see if maybe she was just in labor when I returned she was still there chewing her cud so I tried to lift her to her feet with no luck. What happened next was a miracle in the least. I called every farmer I knew about what to do. All said that maybe something was pinched by the fawns and they needed out. Called my vet and he figured out from all the time of twisting with only one front leg it had separated her spine and paralyzed her from the front shoulders back. She needed put down but ge wasnt giving up hope on the fawns. He was going to try a c-section to get the fawns out but prepared me to loose all three. Lot of emotion followed but he numbed the doe and began the cutting. Within what was maybe 45sec he handed one at a time to antlershed while I held her head. He quickly cleaned their airway with cold water and got them both to gasp for there first breath. Both survived abd he put the mother to sleep. Two c-section buck fawns that were now being bottlefed with what he guessed as a week or two early.

Good luck on your doe and im happy the surgery went well

I'm sure being a taxidermist helped Alot. I would be sol in that situation. Weather is cold so infection may stay at bay. No flies really to cause much damage I'm hoping?

I would have liked to post a link to my story, but it was years ago on the old forums, so I don't have it. I removed my does leg right below the knee. Sounds like yours went well, good luck with her and I hope she continues to recover.

I knew I had a pic somewhere, finally found it. Here was my doe a week after her surgery. Note her shaved neck, when the vet was here to TB test, he said I did ok with the amputation. So that made me feel good. She lived to have twin bucks for me that spring, one died, and one scored 210" as a three year old this past fall. Then she had twin bucks for travis the next spring, one of those is at a different farm, from the pics I seen of him, I think he scores 250" or so as a two year old. This **** could get it done. Too bad she died while trying to give birth to the fawns at travis's farm.

Here was her heavy horn 3 year old. She was a thrower of mass.