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Calf with badly buckled front legs
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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 959852" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>A picture of the calf in question would be nice......</p><p></p><p>Most of the calves that people ask about are a simple case of contracted tendons due to selenium/vitamin E deficiency or lack of room in utero. The others are various forms of congenital crooked calf disease, e.g. angus arthrogryposis, lupine or hemlock poisoning, etc. If this is just simple contracted tendons, most of them will straighten out on their own (usually in about a week); if it's crooked calf due to genetic factors or lupine, he's not going to improve.</p><p></p><p>If he's as bad off as you make it sound, allowing him to continue to walk on the dorsal (front) of his fetlocks is inhumane. He needs to be splinted or euthanized - bearing weight on the joint will result in joint damage, and in some cases, soft tissue damage leading to joint infections.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 959852, member: 852"] A picture of the calf in question would be nice...... Most of the calves that people ask about are a simple case of contracted tendons due to selenium/vitamin E deficiency or lack of room in utero. The others are various forms of congenital crooked calf disease, e.g. angus arthrogryposis, lupine or hemlock poisoning, etc. If this is just simple contracted tendons, most of them will straighten out on their own (usually in about a week); if it's crooked calf due to genetic factors or lupine, he's not going to improve. If he's as bad off as you make it sound, allowing him to continue to walk on the dorsal (front) of his fetlocks is inhumane. He needs to be splinted or euthanized - bearing weight on the joint will result in joint damage, and in some cases, soft tissue damage leading to joint infections. [/QUOTE]
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