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- May 31, 2011
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- Western Kentucky
hello,this past sunday I was changing out some gates, put my 4 1/2 yo buck and the two girls in the building where they have lived a lot of there life. I had put them up so I could peacefully replace the gates. I could here the buck inside playing with a 5 gallon bucket having a big time, I HAD BEEN WORKING ON THE GATED FOR A 7 MINUTES WHEN THIS HEPPENED.
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Entirely my fault ! felt horrible, had a 500' roll of spray tubing was sealed tied etc, he was able to get the clear packing off, undo the ties, get it attached to his rack, spin around freak out, break down the inside gate, crash through the divider in there pens.
Went to get the bam, first hit waited over an hour he would not go to sleep, decided with much thought to hit him again, now a total of 5cc of bam in him he was snoring in about 2 minutes or less.
A good friend helped greatly to calm me down over the phone, he had sent his wife and kids on the 8 hour round trip drive to help me sow him back together. another friend went to the local vet on sunday and got me sutures the kind you have to remove. With tears in my eyes I began sowing his lower jaw skin back on, I have been a part time taxidermist for 35 years.
The was my first live deer to sow on. It was not easy, the small curved needles suck, had to use a straight taxidermy needle. It took around 35 stiches! When he busted through the divider pen his face went through the fence first, cutting off a 2" x 4" section also under his teeth he cut the part that holds his lower lip up(all the way across but only 3/4" back), this is the part that really worries me!!!!I didn't feel like I could sow next to his teeth and we were 1 /1/2 hours in and felt like it was time to wake him up. Woke right up has been eating and drinking lower lip hangs out some. Will this lip pull back and grow on? Or when I put him back down to remove the stiches should I get a pro to come cut out the dead parts and sow it together? Also how long should I leave all those stiches in him?
I was able to get the friends on that 8 hour drive turned back around.
Thought I was prepared for everything, had draxxin, banamine, bam, baytril etc, but no stiches!
What stiches do you guys use? Can we use the ones that absorbs, seems stupid I have to put him back to sleep to remove them.
Bottle fed this buck since he was 7 days old, probably one of my best friends, he has escaped a couple of times over the years and I have been able to walk around the farm find him and get him to follow me back sometimes up to a mile, he really cool! I did remove his rack when he was asleep otherwise I like leaving it on him doesn't seem like the risk is worth me just being careful around him oct thru march!
Thanks for some advice on stiches, removal time etc.....
https://vid.me/lcFv
https://vid.me/Jwxz
Entirely my fault ! felt horrible, had a 500' roll of spray tubing was sealed tied etc, he was able to get the clear packing off, undo the ties, get it attached to his rack, spin around freak out, break down the inside gate, crash through the divider in there pens.
Went to get the bam, first hit waited over an hour he would not go to sleep, decided with much thought to hit him again, now a total of 5cc of bam in him he was snoring in about 2 minutes or less.
A good friend helped greatly to calm me down over the phone, he had sent his wife and kids on the 8 hour round trip drive to help me sow him back together. another friend went to the local vet on sunday and got me sutures the kind you have to remove. With tears in my eyes I began sowing his lower jaw skin back on, I have been a part time taxidermist for 35 years.
The was my first live deer to sow on. It was not easy, the small curved needles suck, had to use a straight taxidermy needle. It took around 35 stiches! When he busted through the divider pen his face went through the fence first, cutting off a 2" x 4" section also under his teeth he cut the part that holds his lower lip up(all the way across but only 3/4" back), this is the part that really worries me!!!!I didn't feel like I could sow next to his teeth and we were 1 /1/2 hours in and felt like it was time to wake him up. Woke right up has been eating and drinking lower lip hangs out some. Will this lip pull back and grow on? Or when I put him back down to remove the stiches should I get a pro to come cut out the dead parts and sow it together? Also how long should I leave all those stiches in him?
I was able to get the friends on that 8 hour drive turned back around.
Thought I was prepared for everything, had draxxin, banamine, bam, baytril etc, but no stiches!
What stiches do you guys use? Can we use the ones that absorbs, seems stupid I have to put him back to sleep to remove them.
Bottle fed this buck since he was 7 days old, probably one of my best friends, he has escaped a couple of times over the years and I have been able to walk around the farm find him and get him to follow me back sometimes up to a mile, he really cool! I did remove his rack when he was asleep otherwise I like leaving it on him doesn't seem like the risk is worth me just being careful around him oct thru march!
Thanks for some advice on stiches, removal time etc.....
