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<blockquote data-quote="Greyhound" data-source="post: 716872" data-attributes="member: 13583"><p>I am fairly new to the cattle business. I have an approximately 15 year old cow that I bought 3 years ago at a sale barn. (Yes, if I had know how old she was, I would have sold her before now. I knew she was old, but I didn't know how old till the vet told me.)</p><p></p><p>Anyway, she has had two good calves for me. She was due to calve again least week. But apparently she had hydrops. Plus it was a large calf, and turns out the calf had one foot backwards when it was trying to come out. So, before I could call to get the vet out, she ruptured her prepubic tendon. The vet came out, pulled the (dead) calf, and gave the cow some antibiotics. </p><p></p><p>I probably should have had the vet put the cow down, but I thought she might be worth something. Is there anything I can do with her, other than shooting her? Perhaps take and have her processed for hamburger meat for myself? Or would the meat be bad because of her condition? </p><p></p><p>I tried to add before and after (the tendon rupture) pictures but could not. I can e-mail you the pictures if you want to see them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greyhound, post: 716872, member: 13583"] I am fairly new to the cattle business. I have an approximately 15 year old cow that I bought 3 years ago at a sale barn. (Yes, if I had know how old she was, I would have sold her before now. I knew she was old, but I didn't know how old till the vet told me.) Anyway, she has had two good calves for me. She was due to calve again least week. But apparently she had hydrops. Plus it was a large calf, and turns out the calf had one foot backwards when it was trying to come out. So, before I could call to get the vet out, she ruptured her prepubic tendon. The vet came out, pulled the (dead) calf, and gave the cow some antibiotics. I probably should have had the vet put the cow down, but I thought she might be worth something. Is there anything I can do with her, other than shooting her? Perhaps take and have her processed for hamburger meat for myself? Or would the meat be bad because of her condition? I tried to add before and after (the tendon rupture) pictures but could not. I can e-mail you the pictures if you want to see them. [/QUOTE]
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