Need fawn advice

ZZ Whitetails · Jun 11, 2009

They will take it orrally, thats your job. If you offer 4 oz. and they only are drinking 2 give a cheater bottle with meds in 1-1/2 oz. of milk and then offer other bottle with the rest of their milk. Or put in syringe and put in back of mouth with head up and squirt slowly down their throat. I always give it orrally. Sometimes I give the thiamine in muscle but don't do that dose ask your vet. Easier down the gullet if they get to much of the thiamine they will pee it out and you will smell it. Works for me. ZZ

woody · Jun 13, 2009

ZZ i gotta tell you. I called my vet about the thiamine and clavamox and she said yes she got it. Then she says I've been bombarding these fawns with all kinds of remedies, cures and drugs that she thinks I should give them time to work before trying something else. I said OK and we'll see how it goes. The fawn wouldn't drink last night either and I figured I'd be injecting her SQ with fluids the next day. Well at 3:15 this morning I heard her crying outside so I got a bottle for her and boy-o-boy she hammered it straight down without stopping. Funny how she remembered how to drink then. Drank another one this morning too. Hope she keeps going!

ZZ Whitetails · Jun 13, 2009

Good news Woody keep her going. I would get some thiamine and keep on hand just cuss. If your vet gets in a sick duck I'll bet she gives thiamine. Very common! They will get the stupids and most of the time it is thiamine deficeint. ZZ

Robbie · Jun 13, 2009

ZZ - our buck that died last winter had polio-encephalamalasia aka goat polio, a thiamine defeciency. These symptoms are sounding a little familiar.

From what I read and was told by my goat lady and vet, the rumen - for any of about 100 reasons - either quits producing or looses the ability to absorb thiamine. This leads to inflamation of the soft tissues in the brain, which gives you neurologic physical symptoms like uncoordiation and temporary blindness. Seizures and death are not far behind if not treated aggressively and quickly.

Neeby · Jun 13, 2009

Yeh robbie, when I use to raise milk goats, they got that alot, there eyes were glazed and they threw up alot, stumbled around , a shot of thiamine in rump turned them around pretty quick. vet felt caused by change in diet, when they were changed over to pellets. very scarey to see, hope it works out.

woody · Jun 13, 2009

Roger that. I'll get some.

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