Prime Acres Whitetails & Exotics

08/12/2026

Our blue tongue fawn is making progress! He got to go back to the pen with his mom yesterday! It looks like he still prefers mama’s milk to his bowl of milk in the barn 😆 also shout out to his mom for taking him back after 5 days away from her in the barn!

08/08/2026

If you have to bring in an older fawn to treat illness or injury, you can try offering them milk in a bowl. Some won’t try it but some are hungry enough to give it a go! It doesn’t always have to be warmed either. This 2 month old mama raised fawn battling blue tongue likes his cold!

08/07/2026

Walle 💙

Walle was one of the very first axis to come to Prime Acres and was one of our first two bottle babies. He is now 4 years old and quite the impressive buck! That tiny bottle baby we started with 4 years ago might just be about to make breeder buck! Pictures of him as a fawn, yearling, 2 year old, 3 year old, and now at 4 years.

08/06/2026

This is Rainbow, one of our whitetail does. In the spring of 2025 she badly broke her back leg. Blood flow to the lower part of her leg was good so we decided to put her in a cast and hope for the best. Given the large open wound we changed the cast every 7-10 days. At the first cast change the bones had not yet started to set but everything looked like it was headed in the right direction. We cleaned her wound and recasted. The second cast change is where things went south. The broken ends of her bone bypassed each other and came out of the skin. By this point enough healing had taken place that we were unable to move the broken ends back into place. After consulting our vet we decided to remove part of the exposed bone and cast again, hoping things would heal as they were. We continued the process of cast changing for several months. We fought infection, tissue necrosis, and removed more bone but Rainbow stayed in good spirits and we were determined to keep fighting to let her keep her leg. In June Rainbow gave birth to twins in the barn, in her cast. It was amazing that they were born healthy with all the stress, sedation, and medication that Rainbow had been through. We pulled both fawns to bottle raise to allow Rainbow’s body to recover. This was the turning point. It seemed once her body was able to focus on her, she was finally able to heal. The bone finally became solid and we put her in a splint for a short time to give the leg support while the bone got stronger. At this point Rainbow still had an open wound with exposed bone on her leg. Our vet was confident the wound would close eventually so we kept it clean and kept going. Eventually Rainbow was able to move outside without a cast or splint, still with an open wound. Despite our best efforts we still fought infection but continued antibiotics and cleaning were able to stave it off. Eventually our vet was right. The wound did close and this year Rainbow had a doe fawn that she got to raise herself. Her leg is a little crooked but you wouldn’t know it by the way she walks. Don’t give up on your deer! They are incredible animals and have an amazing ability to heal.

07/23/2026

From one axis milestone to another! We finally were able to get a live axis fawn from an assisted delivery! Axis rarely have trouble delivering their fawns and often when they do things are really wrong. They also are very good at hiding their distress so it is hard to realize they are having trouble until it is too late for the fawn. This axis doe was a bottle baby and we were able to get close enough to her this morning to see that she was trying to deliver a breech baby. We gave her about an hour with no progress then decided it was time to intervene. Her baby was VERY large (look at the size of him compared to her!) and it took quite a bit of force to get him out. It was touch and go for a bit but he finally started breathing on his own and we were able to give him a little time with mom while we collected colostrum for him. Thankfully after being reversed from sedation mom is doing well. We will bottle raise her baby to allow adequate recovery time and hopefully she will have her fawn without trouble next time.

07/23/2026

We finally have our first set of axis twins! Little did we know they were born almost 3 months ago! On May 3 we found a doe fawn wandering the pen and no one seemed to be paying attention to her. After careful inspection we couldn’t find any does missing a fawn so we decided just to pull her and bottle raise her. Today we got the DNA results back and it turns out she has a twin brother! He is with their mom in the pen. Mom must have decided she only had time for one baby but we are happy to have our bonus girl! These two aren’t just any set of twins either. They are out of Dream On and a Thor doe. It’s going to be awesome watching them grow!

07/04/2026

Happy 4th of July!

07/01/2026

Our deer may not be able to talk but every once in a while they leave little hints that they love us 😁

06/26/2026

06/25/2026

Our girl Alexa is due to fawn sometime in the next two weeks and is absolutely huge! Axis twins are rare but could this be our first set?? Also Alexa is one of the most fiercely protective moms we have so wish us luck tagging whatever she has 🥴