Introduction to Common Disease Prevention and Treatment Methods and Key Points for Deer

1. Dystocia

[Treatment] Strengthen scientific feeding and management of pregnant does, and create a relatively quiet birthing environment. When dystocia occurs, assist the birth promptly.

2. Gastrointestinal catarrh and gastroenteritis

[Treatment] Pay attention to feed and drinking water hygiene, and prevent sudden feed changes, etc. Administer 5% glucose intravenously; if sulfonamides, urotropine, or Anna Ru injection can be added to the intravenous fluid.

3. Rumen impaction and acute rumen bloat

[Treatment] Withhold feed, but do not restrict drinking water. Sodium chloride can be injected intravenously. For acute rumen bloat, the better treatment method is to release gas with a trocar.

4. Tuberculosis

[Treatment] Strengthen feeding and hygiene management of the deer herd, and isolate and disinfect affected deer. Vaccinate newborn fawns and growing deer with BCG vaccine. Treatment of deer that have already developed this disease is of little significance, and early culling is advisable.

5. Necrobacillosis

[Treatment] Maintain hygiene inside the enclosure, and set up a footbath trough containing 3% Lysol, 10% copper sulfate solution, 3% potassium permanganate solution, etc.

6. Brucellosis

[Treatment] Conduct regular quarantine and disinfection, and pay even more attention to handling the secretions of the birthing pen and does. Vaccination with sheep brucellosis vaccine No. 5 can be carried out.

7. Pasteurellosis

[Treatment] Clean and disinfect. The therapeutic effect of sulfonamides is relatively good, and at the same time provide cardiac stimulation and fluid replacement.

8. Deer enterotoxemia

[Treatment] Inject glucose, Nikethamide, streptomycin, gentamicin, chloramphenicol, and vitamins B and C intravenously into affected deer.

9. Deer rabies (nervous system disease)

[Treatment] There is still no effective treatment method. For prevention, canine rabies vaccine can be injected intramuscularly.

10. Tetanus

[Treatment] Prevent trauma, and strict disinfection must be carried out for antler sawing, ear notching, and surgical operations, etc. During treatment, keep the deer in a single pen, quiet and with dim light. Inject tetanus antitoxin intramuscularly.

11. Poisoning diseases

[Treatment] First, the circumstances of the onset should be understood, and every minute counts; administer acidic or alkaline drugs by drenching; and adopt dilution methods, namely intravenous injection of glucose solution, compound sodium chloride solution, etc.; to eliminate toxic substances, administer purgatives, and to protect the gastrointestinal mucosa, administer mucilaginous agents or adsorbents.

12. Fawn diarrhea

[Treatment] Orally administer oxytetracycline powder, lactasin, pepsin, vitamins, and bismuth subnitrate.

13. Fawn omphalitis

[Treatment] First inject penicillin and streptomycin intramuscularly, administer sinomin orally, rinse the local area with hydrogen peroxide, then apply iodine tincture or gentian violet. If the umbilical area is necrotic, remove the necrotic tissue and fragments, and sprinkle an equal-amount powder of iodoform and boric acid.

14. Licking fawn anus and tail biting

[Treatment] Orally administer streptomycin, tannic acid protein, medicinal charcoal silver, and sulfaguanidine to the fawn being licked.

15. Rickets in young deer

[Treatment] To prevent this disease, high-quality green feed rich in vitamins should be given during the pregnancy and lactation periods of does. The deer shed should be dry and have sufficient sunlight, the deer herd should be kept small, and the fawn herd should be driven frequently to increase the amount of exercise for the fawns. Feed a mixture of calcium carbonate, bone meal, or eggshell powder, administer cod liver oil, and inject vitamin D colloidal calcium intramuscularly.