The deer has mud on it's feet. We had rain and snow melt and the top half inch of dirt is snotty muck. She has normal feet as far as I could tell, but doesn't walk right and is bone ass skinny. She only took a few mouths of corn and then walked away and wobbled around off camera. I don't know what's wrong with her, but she looks like she's starving to death with mountains of corn, alfalfa, soybeans, garden leftovers, and every other food source the Sheyenne River valley has to offer.
Both "Old" and cancer are possibilities. Just plain sucked to watch!!!!
Yeah you take a deer and feed it nothing but corn before the gut is up for processing pure carbs this often happens. Back when the game and fish used to have large feeding sites it wasn't uncommon to see a few deer like that. Buy a few alfalfa bales is the best shot to help it if there isn't an underlying condition. But with you having done that perhaps she needs some lead in her diet.
I'd contact the GNF. They might want to put it down and check for disease.
Over consumption of a high carbohydrate feed like corn results in accute accidosis . Deer do not waste away such as this deer is from acute accidosis, they die quickly.
Deer are natural browsers and as long as there is other feeds/browse avaliable such as the case here according to KDM they will not over consume one feed such as corn. It is in hard winters when there is little else to browse they over consume and death results from accidosis.
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Called the G&F several years ago about a little buck we found hauling hay in Sept. that had been hit by a car (guess) and had two broken legs. 4 days later a warden showed up in the yard to take care of it wondering where it was at. Went over couldn;t find it.
I no longer let an animal suffer.