Fawn with kidney stones

hey just wondering if anybody has had fawns with kidney stones i have one buck fawn about 7 weeks old bottle feeding with red capped whole milk and i noticed he was getting bloated and baking soda didnt help at all so i took him to the vet and he had a whole bunch of kidney stones just wondering if anyone else has had the same problems or knows what causes this in whitetails???

Besides red cap what are you feeding and giving for water? You can email me or private message me.

I never heard of this in fawns.



Kidney stones are basically a build up of minerals in the body that aren't getting filtered. I would say possibly this fawn is having issues digesting his milk and having calcium build up in his kidneys. I would suggest giving him diluted formula and getting him to eat more greens and grains as soon as possible.

for feed there is new grass that is coming up in the pen that i planted and for feed i have a mixture of deer chow mixed with corn, some soybeans and sunflowers and for water he has a bucket he can get to with as much water as possible it gets filled all the time and for his bottle he is on 9 ounces twice a day.

I had a six month old buck fawn have trouble peeing, vet found stones in his urinary tract. He cleaned up what he could but the fawn developed an infection from the blockages. 5 1/2 hours on the operating table the buck had one testicle and no ***** left. Bladder was stitched to a hole in his abdomen, peed straight out of the bladder. We have to reopen the hole every 3-5 months. He just turned seven, he may out live me.



We tried to figure out what caused the stones but no answer. next year we had a buck fawn start to have trouble peeing, took him off tap water and used purified water to mix formula. He cleared up right away. I had the City of Birmingham water tested....holy smokes...calcium, other minerals were way up off the charts, particulate matter was like six times normal. I stopped using it. No more probs.



Never heard of any probs with doe fawns, only buck fawns. I think it has to do with the unusual urinary tract a buck has.



Change the water supply to the fawn.



troy

We lost one last year, and lost 2 this year. All were buck fawns- 4-11 weeks old being bottle fed. Sending water and soil sample away for testing.

We have an open front calf condo with 5 pens layed out in front of it. It faces the gravel yard, with a grass strip about 20ft wide inbetween. Two fawns per pen. We are thinking that they are getting the dirt down enough that thay maybe getting into some rock or limestone.

We have 12 other bottle fed fawns in other pens that are fine.

Open for other suggestions and comments

hey my vet did the same operation on friday and he made it threw the night then died from infection the next day they said they did a autopsy and found coccidia i believe they said thanks for all the help though. gonna have my water tested and see how that is

Not much to do with kidney stones. Were they radiographed to confer stones in kidneys?? Sorry If I missed it in your description.. Tramadol at 2 mg per pound twice a day fworks great for pain. Not much success here with surgery but good luck with apple cider vinegar in bottle, water, or straight in mouth at 10 cc per fawn daily for 2-3 weeks with concurrent tramadol for pain.. Good luck and God bless!!!

adding apple cider vinegar or taking fawns off current feed and placing on show goat formulation helps alot

I didnt see where anyone mentioned or asked this...are these fawns in with others, and are any of you noticing fawns false nursing on each other?

Some calcuium carbonate in the water will help prevent urinary calculi and kidney stones.

i top dress feed with Ammonium Chloride to prevent kidney stones in my buck goats (had one very prone to them and lost another to them) and wondered if that would hurt my little bucks ?

We put a small bowl of baking soda out in the fawn pen free choice , this is a goat farmer method but goats rumens are very smilar to deer, it not only helps with stones as scott points out but also helps keep the rumen neutral which helps with scours, I am no deer expert but raised dairy goats many years and it has been working. Good Luck!!!!!



Scott Neeb

Chanllow Farms

In the Heart of Pa Dutch Country

Apple cider vinegar drench or in water too