We have a fawn who is 5 months old who is not thriving. His coat is rough. He walks and stands "hunchbacked". He appears to eat well and is not thin, although he is small. He has looked this way for about 6 weeks. He has been treated by darting with LA300 several times and we tranquilized and treated him with LA300, Ivomec, 8-way, and B Complex on January 1st. My husband examined his back and didn't see/feel any signs of injury or swelling. He does not appear to be improving. Does anyone have any similar experience or advice? Thank you.
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We have a fawn who is 5 months old who is not thriving. His coat is rough. He walks and stands "hunchbacked". He appears to eat well and is not thin, although he is small. He has looked this way for about 6 weeks. He has been treated by darting with LA300 several times and we tranquilized and treated him with LA300, Ivomec, 8-way, and B Complex on January 1st. My husband examined his back and didn't see/feel any signs of injury or swelling. He does not appear to be improving. Does anyone have any similar experience or advice? Thank you.
Has he been wormed? I believe i would get a little more aggressive with him. Ivomec plus, Draxxin, Baytril. What state are you from? This weather of 40 below one day and 50 above the next is rough on some at times!
We have a fawn who is 5 months old who is not thriving. His coat is rough. He walks and stands "hunchbacked". He appears to eat well and is not thin, although he is small. He has looked this way for about 6 weeks. He has been treated by darting with LA300 several times and we tranquilized and treated him with LA300, Ivomec, 8-way, and B Complex on January 1st. My husband examined his back and didn't see/feel any signs of injury or swelling. He does not appear to be improving. Does anyone have any similar experience or advice? Thank you.
Has he been wormed? I believe i would get a little more aggressive with him. Ivomec plus, Draxxin, Baytril. What state are you from? This weather of 40 below one day and 50 above the next is rough on some at times!
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My guess would be if you wormed him oral you got wormer in his lung or he has pneumonia. Wormer in the lungs he will die not much you can do. Pneumonia he need aggressive treatment with Nu flor every other day for at least 5 treatments. Deer with hunched backs have pain in the chest area.
I agree we need to get more agressive. He has not been orally wormed. We usually see improvement in deer with pneumonia after a couple of antibiotic treatments so this seemed different. And only once (that time in a grown buck) have we had a hunchbacked deer. So we thought it might be some other illness we are overlooking. I forgot to mention that his temperature was 102.4 when he was tranquilized.
Fortunately we are in Texas rather than Montana or New York but, for Texas, the weather has been unusually cold (30s during the day and 20s at night). Since he was a late fawn he probably finds it harder to deal with the weather.
Fortunately we are in Texas rather than Montana or New York but, for Texas, the weather has been unusually cold (30s during the day and 20s at night). Since he was a late fawn he probably finds it harder to deal with the weather.