Fawn with infected ear from tag

I have a 30 day old fawn, with a infected ear, appears to be from tag.

Deer appears to be in good health, still feeding from its mother.

Noticed under ear, and ear swollen, puss coming from inside ear.

Manage to sneak up on fawn last night, and catch it. I cut ear tag off,

Cut a spot under ear about 1/4 inch to try and drain it, it was so hard wouldn't drain,

Yellew stinky puss, but it was hard like silicon when it's almost dry.

Any suggestion?

did you give any antibiotics?


 


if not I'd give some.

Meds asap.... It will go sepsis and kill the fawn. Get your hands on him and give some long acting antibiotic.

I did give him a half cc of draxxin, doesn't appear for th swellening to be going down yet, should I try and catch him tonight and give more, or something different?

I believe fuso bacteria is the major cause if ear tag infection. Since we started a vaccination program in our adult does we haven't had any issues with any type of fuso related infections. I also believe it is fuso that causes infected navals. We used to get them too. We haven't had lumpy jaw, infected navals, or infected ear tag holes in 3 years.

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I believe fuso bacteria is the major cause if ear tag infection. Since we started a vaccination program in our adult does we haven't had any issues with any type of fuso related infections. I also believe it is fuso that causes infected navals. We used to get them too. We haven't had lumpy jaw, infected navals, or infected ear tag holes in 3 years.




Thats a tough call on the ear tags. Last year we had 2 with problems. We also used a little bigger tag last year with our farm name printed on it. I think at times the weight of the tag or the part that the fawn gets the tag hooked on the fence when they are in the corners and rip it open enough to get it fleshed and then the infection follows. We went back to smaller tags this year with no issues yet.  


 


I would keep a close eye on that fawn and if that swelling did not drop or if he seems off his game in the next few days i would get my hands on him again.

I had zero problems last year now have 5 with bad ear tag infections I cant get ahead of it either. it has infected the base all the way to the head I have treated 4 times and still losing ground

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I had zero problems last year now have 5 with bad ear tag infections I cant get ahead of it either. it has infected the base all the way to the head I have treated 4 times and still losing ground
Have you vaccinated and boosted your doe herd for fusobacterium? If you have an abscess' tissue necropsied my guess is fusobacterium will be present.

We have had good luck preventing fuso infections with PnueVac2.

I tried to use a vaccine on does in march but it was cattle one so must not help and fuso has been a problem of mine

Fuso guard did not prevent the infection in our herd. Cross reactivity to the fuso strains in deer seems to be poor from the cattle vaccine. I believe the Pnuevac2 vaccine was developed from multiple isolates taken from multiple abscess sites in deer.

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I had zero problems last year now have 5 with bad ear tag infections I cant get ahead of it either. it has infected the base all the way to the head I have treated 4 times and still losing ground

ear looks the same in my infected fawn, but I think I'm getting ahead of it, I've been catching him every other night, total of 3 times now, been getting what I can out if puss pocket, and flushing peroxide, followed by iodine, thru the open wounds, rubbing neoporin, into the wound and giving antibiotics.

Appears the swelling is going down.

Time will tell

I would continue to  give antibiotics until it goes away.  I always clean my tags with alcohol prior to tagging.  I also cover the part that goes through the ear with Neosporin.  Maybe everyone else does this too, just wanted to throw it out there in the event it could help someone.

Excede would be our antibiotic of choice for infected ear tags. Two rounds. Just what has worked for us in the past

Thanks guys, in advance.

I've been giving draxxin 1/2cc draxxin every other day.

Think I will swap to exceed.