Fawn mortality

1cc C&d antitoxin and 1cc ploy serum is what we give....and put iodine on navel.

I also give them 3-5cc of an oral ecolizer (good bacteria) and 1/2 cc of LA200 sub-Q. My overall mortality rate is about 10%. 2 out of 20 fawns. But it's usually not from illness, it's stuck in the fence or bedding down in the middle of a gate opening etc.

toddhoeffel said:

I also give them 3-5cc of an oral ecolizer (good bacteria) and 1/2 cc of LA200 sub-Q. My overall mortality rate is about 10%. 2 out of 20 fawns. But it's usually not from illness, it's stuck in the fence or bedding down in the middle of a gate opening etc.

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Would putting gravel in the gate openings keep them from laying there.?

Fawns like to lay in our fawn shelters. I posted a picture last year. We take 55 gal. Plastic barrels and cut out both ends. We put them along the fence line and stuff some hay inside. Fawns tend to follow the fence line and they will walk in and lay down in the barrels. Helps protect them from rain, cold and predators. It is inexpensive and works!

stevefriend - There was a time when I lost no fawns at all due to sickness. When I did lose one, which I did on occassion, it was due to a colllision between two of them.

And then I began to lose some, then I began to lose more. My losses before I got them turned around were 30 and 40%!

This is what I did to get things turned around - I decided we would pull all the buck fawns and bottle feed them because we rarely lost a fawn that we bottle fed, and we didn't know what was killing our fawns, but leaving them in the doe pens on the moms didn't seem to be gettin it. We left all 22 doe fawns on their moms, and DID NOT LOSE ONE doe fawn that year, and the following is the regiment of meds I gave each of them when they were 2 to 4 days old:

3cc C&D Antitoxin given subcu.

2cc Alpha 7 given subcu.

3ccBovine Ecolizer+c given orally

3cc Probiotic paste(orally of course)

.1cc Ivomec Plus given subcu.

.1cc Draxxin given subcu.

Again.....after some years of suffering fawn losses, of which the 2 prior years of fawn loss had to be considered severe, then upon using the above meds, we never lost a single one of the 22 doe fawns we left on the moms. It made us wish we would have left the buck fawns on the moms too, but we didn't know at that time that this regiment of meds we were giving to these fawns was going to be this effective for our situation.

I don't know your situation stevefriend, but unless somebody else has a better idea, or something to add, I would follow the above procedure of meds for your fawns.

Best of luck to you!

Mark......No BoSe?

Stevefriend, Take the first dead or near dead fawn to a vet and have them send in tissue samples ASAP then doctor for the problem you have. Do you vaccinate the does? What you give the does 45-60 days prior to birth the mommas give to the babies then you can give a booster to the fawns and iodine the navels. If you can mow the fawning pens the sunshine will dry the ground and will kill some of the bacteria that might be there. Clostridium type A would be good to give as well.

Scott Heinrich said:

Mark......No BoSe?

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No Scott...but that's a good idea to add to the regiment!

Oh...and I forgot to add this...you must keep them away from their moms for at least 2 days after the shots. Reason being, they have so many holes in them from all the shots that moms milk just leaks out anyway!!!