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broken leg - pics and video - what's her chances?
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<blockquote data-quote="TCTara" data-source="post: 783717" data-attributes="member: 10013"><p>The best walking splints are a U shape, with very strong metal. They tend to only work under 500 lbs due to inability to have something strong enough and yet light enough to use. It can be reinforced with PCV, but with this animal, it would be difficult to find it big enough to accomodate, even when cut in 1/2 due to how high the fracture is and how muscular the calf is. Fibreglass splints/casts can also be used. Frankly, from what I saw in the vid, there was a chance she would form a callus enough to be able to somewhat heal, but would be painful and would likely go down at some point, lose weight and suffer. That fracture was just a little too high to be successfully splinted. Having said that, I've seen a shoulder fracture heal on a mature simmental cow, so there literally can be individual variation. </p><p></p><p>Sometimes it's best just to cut your losses, but I can understand wanting to try!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TCTara, post: 783717, member: 10013"] The best walking splints are a U shape, with very strong metal. They tend to only work under 500 lbs due to inability to have something strong enough and yet light enough to use. It can be reinforced with PCV, but with this animal, it would be difficult to find it big enough to accomodate, even when cut in 1/2 due to how high the fracture is and how muscular the calf is. Fibreglass splints/casts can also be used. Frankly, from what I saw in the vid, there was a chance she would form a callus enough to be able to somewhat heal, but would be painful and would likely go down at some point, lose weight and suffer. That fracture was just a little too high to be successfully splinted. Having said that, I've seen a shoulder fracture heal on a mature simmental cow, so there literally can be individual variation. Sometimes it's best just to cut your losses, but I can understand wanting to try! [/QUOTE]
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