Unless he was breach and you had to pull from his back legs the odds have having injured its leg/hips from pulling are pretty slim. However, passing the hips through the pelvis may have stretched/strained/sprained, etc. its hips. Or it could have just been so eadded up inside the cow that it will take him a bit to get his legs under him. If he walks ok when he's up and doesn't drag the leg or the leg doesn't point in a weird angle, just give him time. We had a heifer born this year who's rear legs looked like parenthesis ((, I was pretty upset about it figuring she was really a mess, birth defect, mineral deficiency, etc. Within a couple of weeks you couldn't tell anything had ever been wrong. The vet said it was just the way she was balled up in the cow. Works for me!
dunmovin farms
> We pulled a calf last weekend -
> since birth, the calf has a hard
> time getting up on its back left
> leg. In birthing, could we have
> damaged its hips and/or legs?
