Fawn with broken right leg

It should be fine.

We have done this before so make sure the splint is below the hoof so it don't put weight on the break. Where is the break.

If possible could you post a picture of the splinted leg. It would be a helpful future reference for me. I assume you used one the smaller plastic ones made for dogs. I have also made them with aluminum round 3/8" rod stock from the hardware store by bending it and making a hoop circle in the shape of the hip or shoulder to stabilize the brake if it was too high for a splint to fit. Did you sedate the fawn while applying the splint? Watch out for swelling around the splint. They heal very well if the brake isn't a compound fracture.

You will definitely need to check the splint/cast to make sure it is not rubbing the leg and causing a wound. This is the biggest problem with splinting a deers leg. Check it every 2-3 days at the longest, every day is better. Use plenty of padding between the splint and the leg.


 


The hardest part is having enough padding and still making it tight enough to stay in place, deer will usually knock em loose.


 


If you can find it the hard plastic that hospitals use to make a cast with is the weay to go. You just warm water heat the sheet of plastic to make it soft and pliable, form it to fit, and it cools rigid. Make a top and bottom the snap together, lightly tape and it's done, plenty of padding underneath.


 

vets will not have this stuff, only hospitals, or hospital supply places, and is fairly expensive, but reusable when warmed and reshaped.

I used casting material to make a splint. Padded the leg, put the casting material with the length of the leg on one side, wrapped it on with vet wrap let it dry and woke the fawn up. It's not completely rigid but enough to support the leg until they start walking on it. Worked rather well she was using the leg in no time.

"most" of the time one can just leave it alone and it will heal in 2-3 weeks on its own....depends on where on the leg and how much it moves

I agree with Dtala, every deer I've had with a break in the leg they healed better on its own rather then me messing with it and a splint all the time. The first call I made to an old deer farmer with my problem and he told me to just leave it alone and it will probably be fine. I had one that broke his back leg as a month old fawn in between the knee and hip to the point the leg was flopping. I just let him alone and he stayed calm and it healed perfectly. After about a week I could tell it wasn't flopping and after a couple weeks he was starting to  step on it about every third step and after a month he was using it about like normal. He is now one of my breeder bucks and shows no signs of being different from one side to the next as far as antler growth. Usually if they have an injury it will affect the rack on the opposite side. Deer are amazing at healing themselves. I had a wild young buck at my farm with double drop tines that only had one back leg, I was going to shoot him and put him down because I thought he was suffering. The day I found him he whooped a big bucks a$$ and bred his doe right in front of me. Needless to say, If he could still do that with 3 legs he deserved to be alive! He was around for several more years and then last winter he finally disappeared, coyotes  probably finally got him down. good luck

The doe fawn I had that broke it last year was about 10 days before I splinted.  I got to feeling guilty for not doing it.  after I put the splint on she immediately started using it.


I must have had a collision this year with two bottlefeds and one broke a hind leg and the other injured her back, she did not far so well.  The one with the broken leg is in a stall and has been about three weeks.  She wants to knuckle over at the ankle when she puts weight on the leg.  I am contemplating on splinting it soon so the foot doesn't contract.

I had a buck fawn back in May that was 2 weeks old and broke his front leg. The break was right under the joint and was only hanging by a few ligaments and skin and the broke bone had completely came out of the skin.. We made the decision after knocking him out to amputate the leg at the break. He has completely healed up and is learning how to live with 3 legs. He runs great but struggles when he tries to walk slow right now but he isn't in any pain and is still my biggest fawn in the pen. Its amazing how well they can recover from such an early injury.

I have put a splint on underneath a leg that goes under the hoof to prevent hoof from folding back. Usually dosen't take but a few days for it to correct.