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<blockquote data-quote="greatgerts" data-source="post: 1409214" data-attributes="member: 181"><p>Well, if having over 80% bulls as a seedstock producer weren't bad enough, we had a weird thing happen yesterday. A little history first: 10 year old cow, never had any issues with her calves. She was the first cow that I had gotten flushed. She was bred to a bull we have been using quite a bit lately, and all of his calves have been born easily and no issues. Cow was starting the normal signs of getting close to labor Sunday evening, but nowhere near active labor. Still same yesterday morning. I came home from work and saw she had a calf. I go to the paddock, and afterbirth was still fresh. Got to the calf and went to tag him and noticed something didn't seem quite right. He tried to stand, and was having a little difficulty, but I knew he was still young so not too worried. Once I got out of the gator, I noticed what was wrong.</p><p><a href="https://postimg.org/image/qb95qghlf/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s13.postimg.org/qb95qghlf/birth_defect.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>I am not sure exactly what had happened to it. Vet said it was probably just a fluke deal. Still makes me worried about future calves. There is only one claw to the calf on that front left foot, and the bone is about half the size of the other front leg. </p><p>Not really looking for answers. Just figured I'd post a bad misfortune and maybe vent a little about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greatgerts, post: 1409214, member: 181"] Well, if having over 80% bulls as a seedstock producer weren't bad enough, we had a weird thing happen yesterday. A little history first: 10 year old cow, never had any issues with her calves. She was the first cow that I had gotten flushed. She was bred to a bull we have been using quite a bit lately, and all of his calves have been born easily and no issues. Cow was starting the normal signs of getting close to labor Sunday evening, but nowhere near active labor. Still same yesterday morning. I came home from work and saw she had a calf. I go to the paddock, and afterbirth was still fresh. Got to the calf and went to tag him and noticed something didn't seem quite right. He tried to stand, and was having a little difficulty, but I knew he was still young so not too worried. Once I got out of the gator, I noticed what was wrong. [url=https://postimg.org/image/qb95qghlf/][img]https://s13.postimg.org/qb95qghlf/birth_defect.jpg[/img][/url] I am not sure exactly what had happened to it. Vet said it was probably just a fluke deal. Still makes me worried about future calves. There is only one claw to the calf on that front left foot, and the bone is about half the size of the other front leg. Not really looking for answers. Just figured I'd post a bad misfortune and maybe vent a little about it. [/QUOTE]
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