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<blockquote data-quote="jilleroo" data-source="post: 777406" data-attributes="member: 8192"><p>A story re broken legs - we had a big heavy char cow snap a front leg fighting around a lick tub. The offside leg, just below the knee, and it was just swinging. I was all for shooting her as quick as possible. Hubby said no, leave her a while and see what happens. A bad cruel idea I thought at the time. As luck would have it, she was at a watering point right which was beside a laneway which also had a water trough. We slowly hopped her through into there so she had no other cattle to harrass her. She was miles from the homestead so we carted out a round bale of grass hay (it was drought conditions) and plopped that beside her. Anyway she never did take a mouthful of that hay. Everytime we went out there, couple times a week, she was camped in a soft gilgai (depression in the ground). She managed to hop around and get a bit of black dry grass, never really lost much condition, and the leg was healed in a few weeks! No lameness or shortening of the leg, just a lump on the inside of the bone and the hoof wasnt dead straight. The cow produced a large bull calf soon after that and was trucked off on agistment with her mates. We still have her.</p><p>I'm certainly not recommending benign neglect is the way to go though - every case is different. Her leg did swell greatly which somehow seemed to splint it! By the time the swelling went down, it was knitted.</p><p>Have also had a baby calf with a high fracture in his back leg heal completely after being confined to a pen in which he could only stand up and lie down for a couple of weeks. He grew into a big bullock.</p><p>Other broken calf legs, we set with wide plaster of paris bandages, even in beasts up to six months old. A rodeo to get on and off again!! Thankfully they are a rare occurrence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jilleroo, post: 777406, member: 8192"] A story re broken legs - we had a big heavy char cow snap a front leg fighting around a lick tub. The offside leg, just below the knee, and it was just swinging. I was all for shooting her as quick as possible. Hubby said no, leave her a while and see what happens. A bad cruel idea I thought at the time. As luck would have it, she was at a watering point right which was beside a laneway which also had a water trough. We slowly hopped her through into there so she had no other cattle to harrass her. She was miles from the homestead so we carted out a round bale of grass hay (it was drought conditions) and plopped that beside her. Anyway she never did take a mouthful of that hay. Everytime we went out there, couple times a week, she was camped in a soft gilgai (depression in the ground). She managed to hop around and get a bit of black dry grass, never really lost much condition, and the leg was healed in a few weeks! No lameness or shortening of the leg, just a lump on the inside of the bone and the hoof wasnt dead straight. The cow produced a large bull calf soon after that and was trucked off on agistment with her mates. We still have her. I'm certainly not recommending benign neglect is the way to go though - every case is different. Her leg did swell greatly which somehow seemed to splint it! By the time the swelling went down, it was knitted. Have also had a baby calf with a high fracture in his back leg heal completely after being confined to a pen in which he could only stand up and lie down for a couple of weeks. He grew into a big bullock. Other broken calf legs, we set with wide plaster of paris bandages, even in beasts up to six months old. A rodeo to get on and off again!! Thankfully they are a rare occurrence. [/QUOTE]
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