I just put him down and looked that leg/foot over real good. I also gave him some penicillin. He didnt seem to have any open wounds on the foot anywhere? Dont know if that matters with foot rot?
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Indiana
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.