Being a first time deer farmer this yr. having to fight with worms & diarrhea in my fawns because they like to eat dirt, I assume then they are getting the worms from the dirt. My question, is there any thing I can treat the ground with to help with this problem next yr.?
Worms/fawns/dirt
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They nibble at the dirt trying to pick up good bacteria for their gut. That said if the dirt they are getting is mucky crap dirt where water sits and other contaminants may have gathered then it is not good for them.
thank you Roger for your input, we don't have standing water in the pen, but did have a very wet spring & summer, now we are hot & dry, we live in WV. other deer farmers have been having the same problem, praying for a better yr. in 2016.
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The fawns might have been born with them. Most people don't understand how that could happen. Here is what happens the worms in first stage are migrating and some get lost in the body and end up encapsulated but others find their way to the uterus. The worms just stay there dormant till a fetus starts to develop. Within ten days these worms now are adults and making more worms. So the fawn is born with many worms.
I take it you bottle fed these fawns so what I do is put Valbazen in their milk bottle and the fawns are wormed. Here is where most people screw it up. They don't worm again in ten days so the worm cycle starts all over again. If you didn't bottle feed you would catch and worm oral.
Like Roger said many bad bacterium are taken into the fawn along with many good ones. Bad one start and you got the scours. My new drug for scours is Nuflor as it has stopped my scours. But at some point the bacterium will mutate and I will need a different drug.
Good luck and have fun raising the best livestock in the world.
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I take it you bottle fed these fawns so what I do is put Valbazen in their milk bottle and the fawns are wormed. Here is where most people screw it up. They don't worm again in ten days so the worm cycle starts all over again. If you didn't bottle feed you would catch and worm oral.
Like Roger said many bad bacterium are taken into the fawn along with many good ones. Bad one start and you got the scours. My new drug for scours is Nuflor as it has stopped my scours. But at some point the bacterium will mutate and I will need a different drug.
Good luck and have fun raising the best livestock in the world.
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The fawns might have been born with them. Most people don't understand how that could happen. Here is what happens the worms in first stage are migrating and some get lost in the body and end up encapsulated but others find their way to the uterus. The worms just stay there dormant till a fetus starts to develop. Within ten days these worms now are adults and making more worms. So the fawn is born with many worms.
I take it you bottle fed these fawns so what I do is put Valbazen in their milk bottle and the fawns are wormed. Here is where most people screw it up. They don't worm again in ten days so the worm cycle starts all over again. If you didn't bottle feed you would catch and worm oral.
Like Roger said many bad bacterium are taken into the fawn along with many good ones. Bad one start and you got the scours. My new drug for scours is Nuflor as it has stopped my scours. But at some point the bacterium will mutate and I will need a different drug.
Good luck and have fun raising the best livestock in the world.
Jack
The fawns might have been born with them. Most people don't understand how that could happen. Here is what happens the worms in first stage are migrating and some get lost in the body and end up encapsulated but others find their way to the uterus. The worms just stay there dormant till a fetus starts to develop. Within ten days these worms now are adults and making more worms. So the fawn is born with many worms.
I take it you bottle fed these fawns so what I do is put Valbazen in their milk bottle and the fawns are wormed. Here is where most people screw it up. They don't worm again in ten days so the worm cycle starts all over again. If you didn't bottle feed you would catch and worm oral.
Like Roger said many bad bacterium are taken into the fawn along with many good ones. Bad one start and you got the scours. My new drug for scours is Nuflor as it has stopped my scours. But at some point the bacterium will mutate and I will need a different drug.
Good luck and have fun raising the best livestock in the world.
Jack
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Jack at what age would you recommend worming fawns?
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I check fecal's but if you know the doe has worms and the type I wouldn't feel at a week of age with a product like Valbazen would hurt any fawn. It has a very high toxicity range so you can over dose. I for sure would worm all fawns at three weeks of age and then ten days later.
I the old days I would give a SQ shot of ivermic when I found a fawn. The one thing I always hate to do is to do nothing when I catch a fawn so worming is always the first thing I do as I know after 35 years my pens have worms hatching. We now try to rotate pens as soon as the grass gets to 4 inches as in my area that is about as high as a young larvae can climb. This way it just dies from exposure to sun and dryness.
I the old days I would give a SQ shot of ivermic when I found a fawn. The one thing I always hate to do is to do nothing when I catch a fawn so worming is always the first thing I do as I know after 35 years my pens have worms hatching. We now try to rotate pens as soon as the grass gets to 4 inches as in my area that is about as high as a young larvae can climb. This way it just dies from exposure to sun and dryness.