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<blockquote data-quote="darcelina4" data-source="post: 1806158" data-attributes="member: 27059"><p>I bought a couple day old calf a few years ago that had broken his leg between the hock and stifle. I looked up how to fix it and found a Thomas Schroeder splint. I went to lowes and bought very thin threaded metal rods and the connecter bolts. I put the calf in the truck bed so I could keep referring to him as I bent the rods using the trucks bumper and my hands. The I padded it well with cotton and vet wrap and taped him into it. I took him to the vet a few days later. They loved it. They did help me to find a better way to tape it so I did not have to redo daily. I left it on him 3 weeks. It healed like he never had a broken leg at all. At 6 months, you could not tell him from the other calves and we sold him at the sale barn for a good price. I think for any break even lower on the leg, this would work better than a cast as it puts the leg in traction, properly lining up the bones. And it allows the leg to keep growing unlike a cast that becomes tight on the leg as the calf grows. It is labor intensive but it works.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="darcelina4, post: 1806158, member: 27059"] I bought a couple day old calf a few years ago that had broken his leg between the hock and stifle. I looked up how to fix it and found a Thomas Schroeder splint. I went to lowes and bought very thin threaded metal rods and the connecter bolts. I put the calf in the truck bed so I could keep referring to him as I bent the rods using the trucks bumper and my hands. The I padded it well with cotton and vet wrap and taped him into it. I took him to the vet a few days later. They loved it. They did help me to find a better way to tape it so I did not have to redo daily. I left it on him 3 weeks. It healed like he never had a broken leg at all. At 6 months, you could not tell him from the other calves and we sold him at the sale barn for a good price. I think for any break even lower on the leg, this would work better than a cast as it puts the leg in traction, properly lining up the bones. And it allows the leg to keep growing unlike a cast that becomes tight on the leg as the calf grows. It is labor intensive but it works. [/QUOTE]
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