Things You'll Need:
- Baby bottle
- Milk supplement
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Step 1
Hungry fawnBuy milk replacer. Goat milk replacer works well, so buy it from your local feed store and read the instructions carefully. Make sure you know the amounts to mix by heart. Buy two or three goat or lamb nipples that will fit most pop or water bottles and there is no need to buy a bottle. Dribble a little warm milk from the bottle onto the fawn's lips and he will soon take the nipple and drink ravenously.
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Step 2
Snuggling with the new babyFeed the fawn regularly. Feed your fawn at regular intervals to get him into a good routine; every three or four hours is fine until you figure out how much he needs to drink and his approximate age. Your fawn will sleep, defecate and urinate between feedings and will seem quite well-adjusted to his new environment.
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Step 3
Gulp, Gulp!Watch the fawn's bowel movements. Watch for loose stools or diarrhea as fawns can die of dehydration very quickly. Cut the ratio of milk replacer to milk as much as one part milk replacer to twenty parts water. Treat with Pedialyte and Pepto Bismol until its cleared up.














Comments
drkimrx said
on 8/15/2009 I have just recently been given a baby buck that was found on the side of the highway. He is very skinny and has his tail bitten or torn off. I just got done raising an orphan goat so I figured this would be pretty much the same. I have been very successful so far. I have to give him penacillan shots because of the sore and he seems to have a cold or pnumonia. I have had him for 3 days now and he really seems to have perked up today... I know that if I had no idea of what to do this article would have been very helpful...