Frank Fusco
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We had a backyard visitor this morning. Get them all the time but I caught a cute pic today.
The ticks have been especially bad this year. It looks like this fawn may be blinded in the right eye from the ticks. Sad.
Frank looks like she may have run into a barbed fence or something. Never seen ticks work over a deer that fast from birth.
Maybe you can feed her some tick medicine like the kind given to dog in there food. Put it in apple sauce. She will eat it.
Frank do you do any repellant in your yard? Aren't those little deer ticks the Lyme agents? Cattle soon learn a rub is their friend, wonder what would happen if you put one up for the deer? Hmmmmmm, nothing illegal about hunting over a rub is there???
Great shot Frank, but what a poor little critter. I usually show LOML the backyard wildlife photos that get posted here (she remembers Brent and Sharon as "the people with wild horses in their yard"), but I think I'll have to pass on showing her this one.
frank you got better look than we do but there is a disease that is down your way that looks just like what your showing.. we have some ticks up here as well but i havnt seen any that bad before..just seem strang that it would affect just that area and that they wouldnt be able to brush them off before they got that much of area filled with them.. and your also right on the natures way of thinning out the flocks..
That's sad...put it out of it's misery...have a tender heart...and tender backstraps and maybe a hind-quarter or two Mmmm
This was posted in jest folks, not to intentionally tick anyone off
Actually, Ken. If the eyeball itself is not tick-fested, the animal will probably survive OK. Deer are tough critters.