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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1087770" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>rego,</p><p>The weren't 'designed' to come out backwards - but we pull them that way, and I'm convinced that cows also deliver posterior presentations without assistance - but also suspect that a LOT of the apparently normal/perfect stillborn calves I see were probably 'backwards' deliveries that the cow just didn't manage to get out in time.</p><p></p><p>I've had, through the years, a number of posterior presentation deliveries that we got out alive - but died pretty quickly afterwards. I've often wondered - though I don't think I ever necropsied one - if the abnormal directional pressures exerted by a perhaps-too-rapid assisted backwards extraction might have caused a diaphragmatic hernia, resulting in the calf being unable to breathe properly and dying soon after delivery.</p><p></p><p>Thankfully, it's been years since I had to attend to a breach birth. Can't recall if I ever was able to repulse one enough to get the legs pulled around and presented without giving an epidural. I used to be pretty strong, but my arms were always pretty short. Never had one of those crutches Ken mentioned, but can certainly see how they'd be quite handy!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1087770, member: 12607"] rego, The weren't 'designed' to come out backwards - but we pull them that way, and I'm convinced that cows also deliver posterior presentations without assistance - but also suspect that a LOT of the apparently normal/perfect stillborn calves I see were probably 'backwards' deliveries that the cow just didn't manage to get out in time. I've had, through the years, a number of posterior presentation deliveries that we got out alive - but died pretty quickly afterwards. I've often wondered - though I don't think I ever necropsied one - if the abnormal directional pressures exerted by a perhaps-too-rapid assisted backwards extraction might have caused a diaphragmatic hernia, resulting in the calf being unable to breathe properly and dying soon after delivery. Thankfully, it's been years since I had to attend to a breach birth. Can't recall if I ever was able to repulse one enough to get the legs pulled around and presented without giving an epidural. I used to be pretty strong, but my arms were always pretty short. Never had one of those crutches Ken mentioned, but can certainly see how they'd be quite handy! [/QUOTE]
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