malnourished

Hello! Lately I’ve been visiting a little public nature reserve near my house, and today I saw a family of deer who were all looking very malnourished. There were two does, two fawns and I also saw a stag. The does were looking okay, but the fawns were looking somewhat skinny (one more so than...

This fawn is approx. five weeks old. He is severely malnourished, bad hair loss on the neck and belly and the rest of the hair is thin, brittle and can easily be pulled out in clumps. He has such a severe hollow in front of his pelvis that you can palpate the anterior portion of his spine. He...