I have about a month and a half old buck fawn, now on the bottle. He was brought in with a terrible case of e.coli, but he has recovered since. He recieved an injection (can't remember the name of the drug offhand). in his back hindquarter, to which a day later he started to knuckle on his back leg. He's drug the leg around so much, and despite our best efforts to wrap, splint, and keep it clean, it ended up getting an infection right near the knuckled joint.
We've kept him on antibiotics, and he's doing great otherwise, but the joint feels almost fused and it can't be straightened. The hoof has appeared to have lost circulation, and is wilting. It seems like he will loose the foot, but because he is still so young and so small I was wondering if there could be some way to make a boot, or prosthetic to replace the foot, versus amputating the whole back leg (the rest of the leg is health, and he still applies his weight on the bad leg). I was thinking of something similar to the prothetic legs used by athelete runners design.
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We've kept him on antibiotics, and he's doing great otherwise, but the joint feels almost fused and it can't be straightened. The hoof has appeared to have lost circulation, and is wilting. It seems like he will loose the foot, but because he is still so young and so small I was wondering if there could be some way to make a boot, or prosthetic to replace the foot, versus amputating the whole back leg (the rest of the leg is health, and he still applies his weight on the bad leg). I was thinking of something similar to the prothetic legs used by athelete runners design.
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