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dtala

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A friend took in a doe fawn yesterday. It is an estimated 10 weeks old, been kept in a house, fed an assortment of people food, three bottles a day of Universal milk replacer.



It started losing it's spotted summer coat soon after it was found. It still has summer coat on head, neck, some at base of tail. Rest of body is covered with a very fine short hair, grey in color. NOT a winter coat, looks like the underlayment coat....

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any ideas???



troy
 
This is a winter coat growing in. Looks tiny and malnourished.



I would get some goat milk and deer milk replacer, and fatten this baby up asap!! hehe
 
I would get the deer some outside time......and get it on a high fat diet........or will continue to be way behind!! Good luck!!
 
High fat? like what for example??? High fat and protein? just wondering, can you be more specific?
 
she IS tiny, even her ears are tiny. She has been on a milk replacer for last 8-9 weeks.



I did find out yesterday she has a blanket she sleeps on, it smells awful with cleaners, softeners, etc. Owners said she started losing hair a week after they got her....any connection to the blanket...allergies????



She is inside at night, goes out first thing in the am with the other fawns, is eating pellets and alfalfa with the other fawns, also honeysuckle.
 
Lanasvet, she started losing her fawn coat at 2-3 weeks of age, this coat is weeks old, not a winter coat.
 
This year the fawns/deer started to have hair loss/shedding in July in IL. I thought it was hair loss too, but now it sure looks like a winter coat on my deer and her new pals. Same thing happened with my friend's fawns... The meteorologists are predicting (in Chicago area) that we are going to have a very bad winter. The kind that will make all of us grow furr...
 
My deer had a broken leg with open sores, and all winter I kept her indoors while she rehabilitated last winter. I washed her blankies and towels everyday in BLEACH, TIDE and DOWNY. She is presently humongous. She healed fully from her fully fractured tibia, she never had a parasite (which worries me now) and hair is growing in on her scar tissue on her leg for which I am eternally grateful to our Great Healer and I repeat- she is an absolutely humongous yearling doe. By the way, she lived primarily on milk replacer, goat milk and fruits/veggies and browse most of her first 6 months. She only just took off on grains this past summer, and she is HUGE. I doubt that laundered bedding is the problem.
 
personally, i would pump her full of B12 and Flintstones chewable vitamins. Get some weight on her first, then tackle the hair issue. She could just be a runt, I have one that is fat, fine, healthy, but way smaller. But thats just me..
 
Rice bran is another thing you can feed her that is very high in fat and the deer usually like it......I have had very good success with it in the last when I had a deer or fawn that needed to pu weight on.......you can usually buy it at a feed store or a tractor supply......good luck!
 
she's not "skinny", well rounded and padded. I think the hair makes he look malnourished. The hair is maybe 1/8 inch long, if that.



Lanasvet, this fawn was born in late July, found with car hit mom first week of August, started shedding fawn hair a week later.



There is some sort of problem with her hair not related to normal shedding or malnourishment....thats what I'm looking for....



troy
 
I'm thinking allergy or fungus.....



usually I get in trouble if I think too much...:D



troy
 
I would think it might be a selenium deficiency. This is more prominant in young deer, especially fawns. It causes hair loss and thinner muscle structure. Some B12, Thiamine, and Two 0.25cc doses of BO-SE about 10 days apart should do the trick. Just my .02
 
Consult: Scott Heinrich or Dr. Joe Ables here on the forums. But this last advice about BoSE can't hurt for sure.
 
This is a case of vitamin D deificiency. Sunshine and a little multi vitimin therapy will make it better. BTW, don't worry the photo shows the winter hair developing so I would guess it will be just fine.
 

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