fuffy1 Posted March 12, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 Like this. Lol!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apache Posted March 12, 2013 Report Share Posted March 12, 2013 My money is still on fluke. Have you got a friendly local vet? They could give the AHVLA a call and see if they would cover the cost of a post mortem. Especially as 4 have died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aris Posted March 19, 2013 Report Share Posted March 19, 2013 Why don't contact the British Deer Society - perhaps they can help. http://www.bds.org.uk/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodeer Posted March 20, 2013 Report Share Posted March 20, 2013 More likley poachers have lamped them and left them in a spot to be picked up by someone else later on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CWD Posted March 23, 2013 Report Share Posted March 23, 2013 Sounds like fluke to me Have found several fallow this season dead as described CWD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harnser Posted June 21, 2013 Report Share Posted June 21, 2013 Just to add to the confusion . Some time back my farmer friend asked me to come over to the farm to have a look at a red stag that was staggering about and lying down . When I got there the stag was lying down and was obviously in a lot of discomfort . We decided that the proper thing to do was to put it out of its misery so I shot it . Because of the large number of cattle that were grazing on the meadows my friend was concerned as to why the deer was so ill .so he called in a vet to have a look at the beast . We gutted the deer and the vet had a good poke around inside . When the beast was gutted it was obvious that the stomach was very bloated and was full of rape . To cut a long story short the vet decided that the deer had been eating to much rape and it had caused a toxic reaction to the beast and had in fact poisoned it . Harnser . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bleeh Posted July 3, 2013 Report Share Posted July 3, 2013 (edited) I reckon it's not very likely that four animals should drop dead of liver fluke all within a couple of hundred yards over a four week period.......... Often with fluke the animal would be very obviously skinny too. -Edit- Or maybe not, It doesn't seem to effect them quiet the same way it effects other species, perhaps fluke then? Edited July 3, 2013 by Bleeh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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