Busy Morning

I got a call from the Wildlife Center to go to the shelter this morning to help with a new fawn. Apparently a deer was hit by a car around 3:30am this morning and the wildlife vet had to do an emergency delivery with the very pregnant deer. He had to actually cut the fawn out after the deer had died. This vet works at the Birmingham Zoo. They took the fawn back over the the zoo then it was taken to the shelter.
It was so tiny. The vet said that it was almost to full term,so thats why it was a successful birth. If it had been months premature, it wouldn't have survived.
So I helped feeding it from a bottle and it's been put in a pen inside the shelter. Feeding will be every two hours for the first two weeks. After that feeding will be every four hours until it is six weeks old. That vet will be coming to the shelter in the next two weeks to check on her.
She's been named lucky. It's good that the driver that hit the deer had the emergency number to the wildlife center. If anymore time had passed then the fawn would have died. So, I guess it was lucky that it got the assistance it needed.
Since the first two weeks require feeding every two hours, the fawn is going to be housed with a volunteer that has room for the fawn. And she'll be able to keep lucky on a schedule. After the six weeks the fawn will be placed back at the shelter until she reaches 3months. When she will be released back into the wild. Thats the plan. If she can't be released back into the wild, she will probably be used as an educational tool for children who visit the park. Either way, she's going to get the best of care.