[NatureNS] FW: The poor little deer: Fawn born, orphaned same day -- Herald, Sat., Aug. 5, 2006

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Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 08:34:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com>
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Hi Dave
Thats how you do it - it works for moose too!
Paul

--- David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Paul MacDonald wrote:
> 
> >Hi Jim and All
> >Although my name isn't Bob, I should like to tell
> you
> >of an experience I had many years ago.
> >I was travelling through Newfoundland and stopped
> at
> >Corner Brook for the night. The folks there told me
> of
> >a moose calf orphaned in the same way as the fawn.
> So
> >I went to DNR to see the animal. 
> >The calf wasn't too healthy and nobody knew what to
> >do. I suggested they feed it like a dairy calf.
> >
> Hi Paul & All,            Aug 7, 2006
>     It has been a few years, but I recall teaching
> (newborn ?) calves 
> how to drink from a pail by sticking the two middle
> fingers in their 
> mouth, as a substitute teat, and shoving their head
> into a pail of 
> cow-temperature milk. After a few minutes of
> drinking, by sucking milk 
> around the fingers, they are able to drink directly
> from a pail.
>     Is that essentially the technique that you refer
> to ?
> 
> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
> 
> 


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