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Bottle baby deer going bald?
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<blockquote data-quote="Keren" data-source="post: 731603" data-attributes="member: 3195"><p>So my little guy, Coco, is about 8 wks old, he is a fallow deer. And has been going really really well. I got him when he was about an hour old. So far he has done great, I've been raising him on goats milk, no scours or anything. Well I've just noticed the last week or so, he is starting to go bald on his head. It started with a tiny little spot, and considering he is always going through the fences, I thought maybe he had just scraped his head on the barb wire or something similar. But, its been spreading now, into a pretty big patch. Dad reckons its the x marks the spot, because its in the middle of his forehead, marking the spot between the ears and the eyes where you would shoot him ... LOL the skin looks good, its not itchy or sore ... </p><p></p><p>What could it be? I've recently had a sarcoptic mange problem in the camels and the alpacas, and although I havent seen him mix with those animals all that much, he really does have the run of the place, going wherever he pleases. So I guess its possible he might have picked it up from them. But it looks different. But then again the mange on the camel looked completely different to mange on the alpaca ... </p><p></p><p>Anyway I'm just rambling here. </p><p></p><p>Any thoughts as to what it is and how to treat it?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Keren, post: 731603, member: 3195"] So my little guy, Coco, is about 8 wks old, he is a fallow deer. And has been going really really well. I got him when he was about an hour old. So far he has done great, I've been raising him on goats milk, no scours or anything. Well I've just noticed the last week or so, he is starting to go bald on his head. It started with a tiny little spot, and considering he is always going through the fences, I thought maybe he had just scraped his head on the barb wire or something similar. But, its been spreading now, into a pretty big patch. Dad reckons its the x marks the spot, because its in the middle of his forehead, marking the spot between the ears and the eyes where you would shoot him ... LOL the skin looks good, its not itchy or sore ... What could it be? I've recently had a sarcoptic mange problem in the camels and the alpacas, and although I havent seen him mix with those animals all that much, he really does have the run of the place, going wherever he pleases. So I guess its possible he might have picked it up from them. But it looks different. But then again the mange on the camel looked completely different to mange on the alpaca ... Anyway I'm just rambling here. Any thoughts as to what it is and how to treat it? [/QUOTE]
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