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<blockquote data-quote="GoWyo" data-source="post: 1683098" data-attributes="member: 38220"><p>That is a classic sign of spastic paresis. It is a recessive genetic condition. Usually they are very post legged. Mostly came from show cattle lines with certain Maine Anjou lines going back to Cunia. I always understood it took the recessive gene on both sides to lead to an affected calf, but my memory may not be so good on that. Had one from an Irish Whiskey cow (Maine) one time and he eventually died at about 3 months. He would lay out in the pasture and eat all the grass around him and then get up and go a little ways and do it again. Hard to watch and they only get progressively worse, never better and because their leg muscles are basically firing in spasms it is painful for them -- like a muscle cramp on both sides of their leg. Eat him before he goes downhill on condition.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GoWyo, post: 1683098, member: 38220"] That is a classic sign of spastic paresis. It is a recessive genetic condition. Usually they are very post legged. Mostly came from show cattle lines with certain Maine Anjou lines going back to Cunia. I always understood it took the recessive gene on both sides to lead to an affected calf, but my memory may not be so good on that. Had one from an Irish Whiskey cow (Maine) one time and he eventually died at about 3 months. He would lay out in the pasture and eat all the grass around him and then get up and go a little ways and do it again. Hard to watch and they only get progressively worse, never better and because their leg muscles are basically firing in spasms it is painful for them -- like a muscle cramp on both sides of their leg. Eat him before he goes downhill on condition. [/QUOTE]
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