Dislocated shoulder?

[fnfarms1]

So we were eating dinner, dogs start barking carrying on. Went out back expecting to find neighbor dogs in backyard. My son says hey we have a new baby calf! Nope it was one of my best heifer calves (250lbs-ish)that somehow got upside down and backwards in a box blade. Weirdest thing. Took a bit but got her out. She's bit loopy but I've tubed her with electrolytes and tonite with replacer. She walks but drags her left front foot and it seems off. My guess is dislocated shoulder. Calling vet in morning but likely can't get one out. Any ideas? This being forum figured I should send out the help request ASAP. Hopefully vet can come though

When standing the left one (hurt one) is much lower than right

 

[wbvs58]

It sounds like nerve damage, possibly radial nerve and given what she did the edge of the box or blade could very well have put pressure on the nerve. I hope it improves over a bit of time.
Google radial nerve damage in cow and see if the description fits your situation.

Ken

 

[M.Magis]

Quadrupeds don't have shoulder joints to dislocate.

 

[fnfarms1]

Calf died. It gradually just kept going down hill, seemed to be getting harder to breathe. I was tubing it electrolytes and milk. But I'm guessing it had something else wrong inside.

 

[Travlr]

Quadrupeds don't have shoulder joints to dislocate.

No... but the free floating blade can get displaced and turned back to front/front to back. I don't know it there's any fix for it, and it's painful to the animal. They'll lose a lot of weight, fast. I've never tried to manipulate the shoulder blade back in place so I don't know if it can be done.
Any of the vets on the forum know if a fix is possible?

 

[Ky hills]

No... but the free floating blade can get displaced and turned back to front/front to back. I don't know it there's any fix for it, and it's painful to the animal. They'll lose a lot of weight, fast. I've never tried to manipulate the shoulder blade back in place so I don't know if it can be done.
Any of the vets on the forum know if a fix is possible?

It's not the same situation but years ago, I got the pick of a well known regional herds registered Charolais bull calves, just before weaning.
They kept him through weaning and halter broke him.
I got him and turned him out as a yearling
Less than a month after turnout the bull was found one morning dragging his front leg. Had the vet out and said he had a broken shoulder.
Wasn't anything they could do really except time and wait and see how it healed.
Vet said if we wanted to look at a more precise diagnosis, to see what chances of healing back normal would be he recommended to go to a certain equine vet that had a turn table and X-ray machine. We did that and still the same prognosis,
We did as recommended and at around another year, he was still dragging his front leg, so it didn't work out that time on that,

 

[coachg]

I've had a calf that dislocated it's front shoulder

 

[PSMCL]

It's not the same situation but years ago, I got the pick of a well known regional herds registered Charolais bull calves, just before weaning.
They kept him through weaning and halter broke him.
I got him and turned him out as a yearling
Less than a month after turnout the bull was found one morning dragging his front leg. Had the vet out and said he had a broken shoulder.
Wasn't anything they could do really except time and wait and see how it healed.
Vet said if we wanted to look at a more precise diagnosis, to see what chances of healing back normal would be he recommended to go to a certain equine vet that had a turn table and X-ray machine. We did that and still the same prognosis,
We did as recommended and at around another year, he was still dragging his front leg, so it didn't work out that time on that,

A fractured bovine humerus usually heals itself. It helps to confine the animal. Occasionally though, the fractured humerus damaged the radial nerve, which usually heals itself, but that healing takes longer than the healing of the bone.

 

[Ky hills]

A fractured bovine humerus usually heals itself. It helps to confine the animal. Occasionally though, the fractured humerus damaged the radial nerve, which usually heals itself, but that healing takes longer than the healing of the bone.

We did confine that bull, for around a year. Both vets were not optimistic about it healing. It was around 35 years ago, so I have no recollection of what the official term used was, we just called it a broke shoulder. There was no sign of any improvement after that approximate year.
I don't know if keeping him another year would have made a difference, but very likely it would not have.

 

[fnfarms1]

I had a bottle calf. In looking back if the broken calf had died sooner I should have grafted him to that cow but was afraid it was to long by the time calf died. Cow had stopped bawling looking for it.