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<blockquote data-quote="Brandonm22" data-source="post: 647685" data-attributes="member: 7645"><p>We have seen the same videos. You just have a little dinky calf that often walks on his fore arms, has an awful frail phenotype, takes short little choppy steps, and has a little difficulty moving around. A real attentive guy spots that cow and calf on day one takes them to the barn or a paddock where that calf can get a week of extra attention and all ends well.....as everything Angus has written says these calves EVENTUALLY grow out normally. If the condition is not too bad a real good moma cow might be able to rear that calf without help. THAT guy probably blames whoever sold him his mineral program for what most of us would guess was some sort of a mineral deficiency. Somebody with a real big ranch, a job that keeps them away during calving, or who is lazy probably finds this calf as a corpse and blames coyotes. Either way it is easy to see how this did not get spotted quickly. This is probably worse than Arthrogyroposis multiplex or Hydrocephalus because most of us wean this calf. A cow that loses a calf is a whole lot more likely to get herself culled than one that weans one that is a little light and the article says that the calves appear "normal" by the time they are four to six months of age. Some people even have kept some of these heifers for breeding purposes (to their regret). A good cow that weans a 600 lb calf every year shows up with a 450 pounder PROBABLY gets kept another year in most commercial herds. Even more so with a bull carrier of this. If he sired 25 good stoudt calves and two tailenders MOST of us would praise the bull for his good calves and blame the mamas or the minerals or some noxious weed......or not even notice that two calves were a little dinky.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.angus.org/reporting_FCS.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.angus.org/reporting_FCS.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brandonm22, post: 647685, member: 7645"] We have seen the same videos. You just have a little dinky calf that often walks on his fore arms, has an awful frail phenotype, takes short little choppy steps, and has a little difficulty moving around. A real attentive guy spots that cow and calf on day one takes them to the barn or a paddock where that calf can get a week of extra attention and all ends well.....as everything Angus has written says these calves EVENTUALLY grow out normally. If the condition is not too bad a real good moma cow might be able to rear that calf without help. THAT guy probably blames whoever sold him his mineral program for what most of us would guess was some sort of a mineral deficiency. Somebody with a real big ranch, a job that keeps them away during calving, or who is lazy probably finds this calf as a corpse and blames coyotes. Either way it is easy to see how this did not get spotted quickly. This is probably worse than Arthrogyroposis multiplex or Hydrocephalus because most of us wean this calf. A cow that loses a calf is a whole lot more likely to get herself culled than one that weans one that is a little light and the article says that the calves appear "normal" by the time they are four to six months of age. Some people even have kept some of these heifers for breeding purposes (to their regret). A good cow that weans a 600 lb calf every year shows up with a 450 pounder PROBABLY gets kept another year in most commercial herds. Even more so with a bull carrier of this. If he sired 25 good stoudt calves and two tailenders MOST of us would praise the bull for his good calves and blame the mamas or the minerals or some noxious weed......or not even notice that two calves were a little dinky. [url=http://www.angus.org/reporting_FCS.pdf]http://www.angus.org/reporting_FCS.pdf[/url] [/QUOTE]
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