Last summer I posted this photo, today she was slaughtered. Over a year later and she still carried a jaw full of cud. Check out these new pictures. The first photo of her teeth is the normal side, she has 6 teeth on top and 6 on bottom, the last two are from the side she kept her cud in, she has 4 on top and 5 on bottom.
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Jeff
Do you think that her teeth were messed up and that is what caused her to pack her jaw, or that her teeth are messed up because she packed her jaw?
I have had fawns get lumps but with antibiotic and wormer it went away.
Just wondering if this can be prevented or if it is just going to happen to some deer?
Do you think that her teeth were messed up and that is what caused her to pack her jaw, or that her teeth are messed up because she packed her jaw?
I have had fawns get lumps but with antibiotic and wormer it went away.
Just wondering if this can be prevented or if it is just going to happen to some deer?
Joined Apr 2009
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Northeast Wisconsin
Depending on which came first, if it was the lump then it is a quid. It can be prevented with treatment - we use Wazine 34 in the water just follow the directions on the bottle. If she had a jaw deformity first though this wouldn't help. We have been using the Wazine a couple times a year and have pretty much eliminated the quid problem.
When she was little I treated her with penicillin for the lump jaw, at the time she had infection in her jaw. I suppose the penicillin killed the infection but the root of the teeth must of had been disturbed from it and grew this way. There was absolutly no infection in her now.
Joined Feb 2012
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South Dakota
I had a doe do the same thing for a year...I would go in and pull out the cud but the next day it was right back where it was. She died about a month ago due to the infection it caused.