Katpau
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A week ago I had a calf with extremely contracted tendons. He weighed well over a 100 pounds out of about a 1100 to 1200 pound cow. At first he walked only on his fetlocks, then the top of his toes. He now will walk for short distances on the front of his tippy toes. I stretch on them each day and have applied splints twice. Once between days 2 and 3, and again between days 6 and 7 (today). When I pull on them they will not pull forward all the way to a normal position. I have the cow and calf separate from the herd in a small covered pen. He is gaining rapidly. He is the largest calf I have calved out of my mostly Angus herd in 16 years. Interestingly his father was an Angus yearling with a calving ease EPD of 10 and Birthweight EPD of .8. I guess that shows that no matter the EPDs its hard to guess what what you will get from an unproven animal. My guestion is, has anyone seen a calf with such extreme tendon contraction recover?