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Anyone w/ experience w/ frozen hooves on valuable calves?
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<blockquote data-quote="WalnutCrest" data-source="post: 1116317" data-attributes="member: 21715"><p>Got home late last night.</p><p></p><p>Here's what we know so far:</p><p></p><p>* Both claws are gone.</p><p>* The three bones that support the two claws are also gone. Her rear right leg is currently about 1.5" shorter than the rear left leg.</p><p>* According to xrays, two bone fragments are at the base of the cannon bone, but do not appear to be splinters from the cannon bone.</p><p>* Cannon bone appears healthy and viable.</p><p>* After three days of bandage changes, "granular tissue" has grown over the entire stump -- this is the best news since this means that infection is much much less likely now -- and, the vet also said he wasn't sure that she'd grow any granular tissue since the bones in support of the claws are gone and was a little surprised that she has already done this.</p><p>* Mama is very attentive, but is letting them do their job on her little girl.</p><p>* Other than her right rear hoof (which is hardly her fault), she's a healthy, well-built heifer.</p><p>* They're building a brace for her rear right leg so that she can stand with better posture without inhibiting her growth and her structure (i.e., so that she grows with having correct posture so that it's not a problem when she gets older). The brace is getting built out of the hard yellow gas piping -- the vet showed us some of his other braces -- they seem very effective.</p><p></p><p>We still won't know much more than this for a couple of weeks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WalnutCrest, post: 1116317, member: 21715"] Got home late last night. Here's what we know so far: * Both claws are gone. * The three bones that support the two claws are also gone. Her rear right leg is currently about 1.5" shorter than the rear left leg. * According to xrays, two bone fragments are at the base of the cannon bone, but do not appear to be splinters from the cannon bone. * Cannon bone appears healthy and viable. * After three days of bandage changes, "granular tissue" has grown over the entire stump -- this is the best news since this means that infection is much much less likely now -- and, the vet also said he wasn't sure that she'd grow any granular tissue since the bones in support of the claws are gone and was a little surprised that she has already done this. * Mama is very attentive, but is letting them do their job on her little girl. * Other than her right rear hoof (which is hardly her fault), she's a healthy, well-built heifer. * They're building a brace for her rear right leg so that she can stand with better posture without inhibiting her growth and her structure (i.e., so that she grows with having correct posture so that it's not a problem when she gets older). The brace is getting built out of the hard yellow gas piping -- the vet showed us some of his other braces -- they seem very effective. We still won't know much more than this for a couple of weeks. [/QUOTE]
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