Things You'll Need
- Baby bottle
- Milk supplement
Instructions
Buy 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.
Feed 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.
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.