fawn concern that i havent had before

I have a 1.5 week old fawn that is on the momma. it appeared to be born healthy. I checked on him his first 3 days, he seemed fine. then i got busy at work and i havent checked the fawn pens until last night. when i found and checked this fawn, I noticed he appeared very sluggish, i had to force him to stand and when he did he was very shakey. he then tried to run, but when he ran he acted like a deer that was shot in the lungs and ready to fall over any second. he cannot get his legs to work like he wants them too, he is trying, but its like his legs cant keep up with his body language. I immediatly thought he has to have a selenium deficiancy, so i gave him bo-se last night. he wasnt much better yet tonight, so i gave him vitamin A/D and pen G (pen G was just incase it is an ear infection causing balance issues) along with a tube of probiotics tonight.

he was only given probiotics and a 1/2 cc of bo-se at birth. My feed is loaded with minerals, even selenium, which he should be getting through his moms milk, but this guy honestly appears to have some kind of vitamin or mineral deficiancy. Any thoughts?? I need to work quickly with this guy, I got a feeling he's going to go downhill very quickly if i cant correct this issue now.

Well, I came home early today, and now the fawn cant stand at all. his stomache was caved in. he was completely dehydrated.

I took him in, gave him a whole bottle of ringers solution, and, I kid you not withing 5 minutes he was walking. I then offered a him a bottle and he took 3 ounces, he wanted more, but he got weak and fell over. I will let him rest and allow the ringers solution kick in and allow him to be a little more perky and I will try and feed him in about an hour.

So i now believe this is a case of neglect from the mother, as uncle harley suggested above. I believe he has eaten plenty when he was born and a few days following, or he would'nt have still been alive today, he is 10 days old, but at some point the mother just quit on him. His poop is fine, its solid, half tan, half brown. I know from past expierences if the poop is tan, that means they are not being fed enough, or are becoming dehydrated

Should i offer colostrum still? I imagine he didnt get enough, correct me if I am wrong, but I would think colostrum at this age may cause scours.

He's got a LONG road to recovery, and its probably too late now, but I have to try all I can as I would with any fawn in his situation, but to make matters worse this is the best genetically born buck fawn ever born on my farm. Sometimes you just cannot win, I am just really bumming now. Give me 100 fawns with no pedigrees and they'll all be alive in the fall,no issues at all, then give me 8 of the best genetic buck fawns on the market and 4 will be dead in a month.. thats how it goes here at my place i guess. The only way i can cheer myself up is to remember how blessed i am to own deer and to have the health to do it.

Thank you all so much to all for your concern, I will keep you updated.

I want to thank you all, i have used advice from all of you in one way or another on his long road to recovery, I am happy to report he is sucking back 10 ounces 3X a day right now. It took 3 long miserable days to get him to suck on his own, for those 3 days i had to tubefeed him and forcefeed milk out of the bottle it would take me upto 20 minutes to get 3 ounces in him when forcefeeding him.

The only problem i still have is that his back legs still bow, Should i continue with more vitamin B and BoSe, they have definately helped because just 5 days ago he could not stand up to support his body weight. I dont know which is helping more, but i have given 1 cc vitamin B every other day for about 6 days, it has been about a week since i gave him 1 cc of BoSe. So i think i will give BoSe tomorrow to see if it helps.