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broken leg - pics and video - what's her chances?
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<blockquote data-quote="jilleroo" data-source="post: 783930" data-attributes="member: 8192"><p>We have successfully used a splint with the "basket handles" on a heifer with a high break like that but she was smaller and lighter.</p><p>It healed in two weeks and before that you could lift the leg to point skywards when she was standing up. However I feel your heifer was just too big and heavy for it to be a success.</p><p></p><p>We've done one that size for a lower leg break, threw her in the paddock, had a rodeo show whacking a big thick heap of plaster of paris on her (covered with bright orange adhesive vinyl to try and waterproof it a little!) and let her go, she was mad as about the whole deal. It wasnt until four months later we saw her again - the leg was healed, she had grown hugely, the plaster was mostly still on but, because the leg was really swollen when we plastered it, hadnt rubbed it much at all. We had a one heck of a time cutting it off her!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jilleroo, post: 783930, member: 8192"] We have successfully used a splint with the "basket handles" on a heifer with a high break like that but she was smaller and lighter. It healed in two weeks and before that you could lift the leg to point skywards when she was standing up. However I feel your heifer was just too big and heavy for it to be a success. We've done one that size for a lower leg break, threw her in the paddock, had a rodeo show whacking a big thick heap of plaster of paris on her (covered with bright orange adhesive vinyl to try and waterproof it a little!) and let her go, she was mad as about the whole deal. It wasnt until four months later we saw her again - the leg was healed, she had grown hugely, the plaster was mostly still on but, because the leg was really swollen when we plastered it, hadnt rubbed it much at all. We had a one heck of a time cutting it off her! [/QUOTE]
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