Joint Infection above hoof

Iodine by mouth? If that is what you are talking about it will probally clear it up. Its a pretty tough on the animal. The Iodine treatment will push the animal to near toxicity. To get the iodine levels high enough it pushes the animal close to death. If i have this in a doe i will just take one toe off. They don't need both of them.. Make sure if your vet does it they take it off in the second joint from the tip of the hoof. I have did this surgery on a dozen or more animals and have cured every one of them. I hate to do it on bucks cause some times your get a little lop sided antler growth the following year.

The iodine powder is an old school treatment. Had a old country vet tell me how to do it. It's just pretty rough on the deer. I would take the toe off without a doubt. In two weeks you will never know she has one toe. She will walk on it and everything.

we had 2 buck fawns this fall get abscesses above the hoof. Drained them gave them fusoguard, antibiotics, flushed the wound with iodine and packed them with furacin. one was much worse than the other it was into the joint. I wondered if I was going to have to amputate the claw. I had to knock him out twice.I bandaged it the first time because we were supposed to get a lot rain. Drained it, flushed and packed. Knocked him out two weeks later and took bandage off. Wound was clean and no drainage but I could see in the joint. He had another abscess about 3-4inches above the first that did not communicate with the first. I drained, flushed and packed it with furacin. I left it unbandaged, sprayed the original area with silverspray and gave more antibiotics and he did great. The other one had a draining hole above the hoof and healed up fine after one treatment.

It's not looking bad at all. I would stay on her with antibiotic and see what happens. What have you been giving and how often ?