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<blockquote data-quote="bward" data-source="post: 955642" data-attributes="member: 48"><p>Looks like some nerve impingement in the hip area to me. She can seem to put weight on the foot okay, its just swinging the leg forward that seems to hurt a lot, and thats when she swings the leg to the side. The big tip off is early in the video when she takes a miss step and almost collapses in pain. Its like she had to catch herself when her weight was bearing in a very painful area of the stride. I had a cow like that last year and it was so painful for her she spent most of the time laying down. She went down 2 weeks after calving and I think she hurt herself by getting bogged down in mud and caused joint 'damage' pulling the hind leg out of deep muck. Although it didn't pull the joint out of the socket there was definate pain. She was down for about a month getting up now and then to flail a few feet and collapse again. During this time I had plenty of time to clean out the foot and determine that it was not foot pain. One day she had flailed herself out to the pasture and a storm was coming and I wanted to get her in the shelter. I smacked her to get up and she started in and after she walked about 20 yards she all of a suddenly strided out in full as the pain was gone and whatever was impinging was now out of the way. I was in total shock and she was delighted. After that I would see if recurr now and then, but during the summer she had complete relief and regained the 3 to 400 pounds she had lost. That fall I would see her holding the leg again having periods of normalcy, and periods where she looked like your cow. She was at a cullible age so I shipped her shortly after that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bward, post: 955642, member: 48"] Looks like some nerve impingement in the hip area to me. She can seem to put weight on the foot okay, its just swinging the leg forward that seems to hurt a lot, and thats when she swings the leg to the side. The big tip off is early in the video when she takes a miss step and almost collapses in pain. Its like she had to catch herself when her weight was bearing in a very painful area of the stride. I had a cow like that last year and it was so painful for her she spent most of the time laying down. She went down 2 weeks after calving and I think she hurt herself by getting bogged down in mud and caused joint 'damage' pulling the hind leg out of deep muck. Although it didn't pull the joint out of the socket there was definate pain. She was down for about a month getting up now and then to flail a few feet and collapse again. During this time I had plenty of time to clean out the foot and determine that it was not foot pain. One day she had flailed herself out to the pasture and a storm was coming and I wanted to get her in the shelter. I smacked her to get up and she started in and after she walked about 20 yards she all of a suddenly strided out in full as the pain was gone and whatever was impinging was now out of the way. I was in total shock and she was delighted. After that I would see if recurr now and then, but during the summer she had complete relief and regained the 3 to 400 pounds she had lost. That fall I would see her holding the leg again having periods of normalcy, and periods where she looked like your cow. She was at a cullible age so I shipped her shortly after that. [/QUOTE]
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