Deer Calendar
Below is a brief outline of key animal health events as you go through the year for your deer
Deer Calendar
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Month
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Event
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January
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- Develvet re-growth stags
- Weigh yearlings
- Review parasite management plan
- Tagging
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February
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- Spiker hard antler removal
- Weigh yearling hinds
- Lepto booster
- Early weaning
- Monitor for facial eczema and ryegrass staggers
- Join stags with MA hinds (yearling hinds earlier)
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March
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- CIDR hinds and AI
- Monitor hinds and stags during rut
- Young-stock vaccinations (Yersiniosis, 5in1/7in1, Lepto)
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April
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- Late weaning
- Booster vaccinations
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May
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- Stag removal
- Pregnancy test (30 days post stag removal)
- Trace element testing (dry hinds at works)
- Lungworm risk
- TB testing
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June
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- Yersiniosis risk (over winter)
- Lice risk
- Copper supplement if needed
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July
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August
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- Button drop
- Preferentially feed velvet stags
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September
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- Pre-fawning checks
- Mob velvet stags
- Type 2 otertagiosis risk
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October
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November
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- Velveting/ velvet assessment
- Fawning/ calving
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December
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- Weigh yearlings
- Velveting
- Ticks on fawns risk
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