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<blockquote data-quote="Fire Sweep Ranch" data-source="post: 987811" data-attributes="member: 18809"><p>First, Dun, YUCK! Polishing a stone???</p><p>We raised a steer a few years back that got a pretty bad case of urinary calculi. When he was around 900 pounds, we saw a white substance around the tip of his sheath. We then started noticing that he was urinating in small amounts. Finally, we took him to the vet because he was off his feed, would stretch out often while standing, and dribbled urine often. Vet did a rectal, and found his bladder was overly full, size of a football if I remember correctly. We had to drastically modify his diet just to get him to an acceptable butcher weight, forget the fact that he would never be able to be shown (my daughter was hoping to take him to the simmental nationals). It was real hard on all of us, since I did not want him to drop dead from a bladder that ruptured, but wanted to get him to a decent weight for butchering! Never seen a case like that before, and have not seen one since! But, definitely diet related. When ever we tried to increase his grain, he would relapse and start the issues with urinating. Just hay, he was fine...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fire Sweep Ranch, post: 987811, member: 18809"] First, Dun, YUCK! Polishing a stone??? We raised a steer a few years back that got a pretty bad case of urinary calculi. When he was around 900 pounds, we saw a white substance around the tip of his sheath. We then started noticing that he was urinating in small amounts. Finally, we took him to the vet because he was off his feed, would stretch out often while standing, and dribbled urine often. Vet did a rectal, and found his bladder was overly full, size of a football if I remember correctly. We had to drastically modify his diet just to get him to an acceptable butcher weight, forget the fact that he would never be able to be shown (my daughter was hoping to take him to the simmental nationals). It was real hard on all of us, since I did not want him to drop dead from a bladder that ruptured, but wanted to get him to a decent weight for butchering! Never seen a case like that before, and have not seen one since! But, definitely diet related. When ever we tried to increase his grain, he would relapse and start the issues with urinating. Just hay, he was fine... [/QUOTE]
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