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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 884466" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>Obviously other possibilities would be joint ill (does she have an abnormal temp?), trauma to the muscles (I did a necropsy on a calf that was hiplocked and likely stepped on, extensive deep bruising to the hind limb muscles from the spine down to the hock and all the way to the pelvis- bones were normal but her muscles wouldn't work for her at the moment), birth defect (doesn't sound too likely), nerve damage (ie to femoral or sciatic nerve, could be due to pressure, muscle trauma, bruising/swelling, etc - but you would expect her to improve).</p><p></p><p>On a side note- regardless of cause, when a calf never gets to use a limb, they do reach a point where they *quit* using it and won't use it again. I had a calf with joint ill in the stifle like that - at about 250lbs her off-side hind limb called it quits since it had had to bear all her hind end weight. In retrospect, I should have shot her in the beginning.</p><p></p><p>Keep us posted...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 884466, member: 852"] Obviously other possibilities would be joint ill (does she have an abnormal temp?), trauma to the muscles (I did a necropsy on a calf that was hiplocked and likely stepped on, extensive deep bruising to the hind limb muscles from the spine down to the hock and all the way to the pelvis- bones were normal but her muscles wouldn't work for her at the moment), birth defect (doesn't sound too likely), nerve damage (ie to femoral or sciatic nerve, could be due to pressure, muscle trauma, bruising/swelling, etc - but you would expect her to improve). On a side note- regardless of cause, when a calf never gets to use a limb, they do reach a point where they *quit* using it and won't use it again. I had a calf with joint ill in the stifle like that - at about 250lbs her off-side hind limb called it quits since it had had to bear all her hind end weight. In retrospect, I should have shot her in the beginning. Keep us posted... [/QUOTE]
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