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Lecture 13: Fawn Care and Herd Health (NEED TO FINISH) Flashcards

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What is the most important factor in disease management and what is the significance and what does it contain?

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Colostrum; Antibodies to diseases of the dam and it contains vitamins, minerals, and laxative

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How soon after birth do neonates need to receive colostrum?

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12-24 hours post birth

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What is important to consider with sanitation

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  • Clean environment
  • Disinfectants (be careful)
  • Dry Ventilation
  • Pens
  • Equipment
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How is it best to raise neonates?

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  • Groups ??? consider stress
  • Individual housing ??
  • Hand rearing
  • Bucks Does
  • Pritchard Nipple (deer have 4 teets like a cow)
  • What is farm goal? breeders?
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What is the best way to raise a bottle fed fawn and what are the 3 reasons why?

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  • Best to raise individually
    • -Imprint
    • -Minimize spread of disease
    • -Minimize inappropriate nursing
  • Dirt floor with shavings or straw
  • Keep away from older deer
  • Group them based on age
  • DO NOT ALLOW THEM TO BE ON SAND (fawns bloat and die)
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How much milk replacer do we give to bottle fawns?

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Amount : 10-20% of body weight per day

1st 4 times a day

20-30 days old twice a day

2 months old twice a day

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What does milk replacer contain?

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  • GET ON MADE FOR FAWNS (superior, fox valley)
  • Antibiotics
  • Anticoccidials
  • to prevent polioencephalomalacia

LESS IS MORE

  • vit a B and E b complex
  • enema
  • microchip
  • 24 hours old
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How much protein does creep feed often contain?

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Protein (18-20%)

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Diseases that affect neonate fawns that are oftne bacterial, viral, parasitic. What are the top 3 parasites for fawns?

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  1. Coccidia (look for scours)
  2. Cryptosporidia (Zoonotic, gloves when handling)
  3. “Worms”

Why having good sunlight, sanitation, inapprorpiate nursing (which causes coccidia)

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How do we control diseases in the fawn (in captivity)?

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  • Sanitation
  • Ventilation
  • Colostrum
  • Antiparasitic drugs (can be added to the milk/replacer)
  • Antibiotics to milk/replacer or injectable
  • Vaccination: (such a small dose)
    • Clostridium perfringens C & D, Clostridium A
    • HD
  • Antitoxin/antiserums
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How much is a straw of semen?

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1500 up to 20,000 in on case

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12
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Why do we avoid pelleted feed

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bloat

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13
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Treatment of D+ needs to be _____

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early

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Name the antibioics used for D+

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SMZ

TMP

Nuflor

ceftiofur

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Name some antiflammatories used for D+

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Don’t use within a week of life kidneys still developing if you can help it

Banamine and meloxicam can be used

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Antiparisitics used for D+?

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DeccoxM/Corid/Albon

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What do we supplement calves with suffering from D+

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electrolytes

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What is the number one fawn killer?

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Fusobacterium (THINK Fuckkkk it kills da bebezz)

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What things does Fusobacterium cause? What type of bacteria and what todo?

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  • Necrotic stomatitis (bottle rased fawns)
  • Abscess (internal and external-umbilicus)
  • Gram - anaerobe (expose to air to flush it out or amputate)
  • Foot problsm and infections
20
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Fractures that happen post weaning what todo?

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LEAVE them alone, they will heal on their own if you chase them they run and then it worsens can get contaminated and youd have to euthanize

If they can handle easily then you can splint, cast, or pin if needed

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Most handling facilities is a series of _____ ______ that the deer move through. The _____ people the better

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enclosed boxes; fewer

22
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DO deer move better in the dark or light?

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Wild animals-must handle them _____ and _____

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cautiously and quietly

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In terms of nutrition what do cervids need access to?

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Need adequate amounts of good quality forage/browse

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The ______ is th eposition name of the person who grabs the deer and puts a towel on?
mugger
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What do we need todo in terms of biosecurity?
* Minimize exposure to pathogens * Clean equipment * Keep young separate from old * Don’t buy disease!
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One of the most important aspects of herd health is?
Records
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Is there a commercial vaccine for deer with fusobacterium?
No
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WHere do clostridial disease originate from?
Originates from contaminated Colostrum, environment, A concern following reproductive procedures
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What does C. perfringens A cause?
muscle necrosis, enteritis, hemorrhagic bowel, bloat
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Never use _______ because deer are food animals and its illegal to use them in any type of meat for cosumption
fluroquinolones
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What disease of concern in cervids often causes pneumonia and is very hard to dx and treat and can be very contagious requiring herd biosecurity?
Mycoplasma
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Are parasites, bacteria, or fungi more of a concern for intensively raised deer.
parasites
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What do we use to deworm deer?
Fenbendazole, Albendazole, Ivermectin, Moxidectin (same as cattle)
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What antiprotozoal do we use in deer?
ponazuril?, sulfadimethoxine (Albon), Decoxx, Amprolium(be careful blocks vit D 1 because of blocking thiamine and can cause polioencephalomalacia) (Corid)???
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What does culicoides supposedly cause and descirbe the mortality and morbidity?
Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD); High morbidity and high mortality (in herds naïve to the strain)
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What are the different types of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD) and does treating one treat others?
NO!!! EHD 1,2, and 6. Minimal cross-protection!!
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What are the clinical signs of Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease
Signs: Fever, mucopurulent nasal discharge, swollen tongue, sub-q edema, widespread hemorrhage at necropsy, lameness, neurologic & death
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How do we treat Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease
Anti-inflammatories, antibiotics, and prayer
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How do we prevent EHD?
Insect control, autogenous vaccine?, import test-negative deer, import only semen or embryos?
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What disease is similar to EHD and what is it transmitted by? Morbidity or mortality? How many types
Bluetongue (BTV); culicoides most active at dawn or dust; High morbidity, variable mortality; 26 types
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What seasons are BTW highest and how do we treat and prevent?
* Highest incidence in summer & early fall * Anti-inflammatories, Antibiotics, prayer * Prevention: Insect control, vaccine? Keep insecticides away from feed and water
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What is capture myopathy?
associated with prolonged anesthesia and the stress of capturing the animal and effects after that that can occur several days after
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What CS does capture myopathy show?
Hyperthermia, tachycardia, muscle damage, recumbent, death
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How do we treat capture myopathy?
Euthanasia, Oxygen therapy, IV electrolyte solution, anti-inflammatories, glucose, and prayer, Keep stress to a minimum; no prolonged chases

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