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<blockquote data-quote="WFfarm" data-source="post: 1631628" data-attributes="member: 39155"><p>We had one last summer that got joint ill that went into the front shoulder. Shoulder swelled up and it would hobble around on three legs and not put weight on the leg. Kept is close to the barn with it's mom so it didn't have to travel far for food and water. Gave it a few rounds of antibiotics and banamine. Vet had us give it 10 days straight of penicillin, like double the dose called out on the bottle. It eventually got better and let it out with the herd and he was running with the other calves. A few weeks later it relapsed and back to hobbling three lagged. Back to the barn yard and another couple weeks of daily high dose penicillin shots. Poor guy must have felt like a pin cushion. He could move pretty fast on three legs when he saw you coming with that syringe. After about 3 to 3-1/2 months he started getting over it and walked with a little limp. When we weaned him at 6 months you couldn't tell anything was ever wrong with him. We sold him with the rest of the feeders at 7 months, so long term I don't know if he every had any more issues or the lameness came back. It was a long road but he seamed to eventually make a full recovery.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WFfarm, post: 1631628, member: 39155"] We had one last summer that got joint ill that went into the front shoulder. Shoulder swelled up and it would hobble around on three legs and not put weight on the leg. Kept is close to the barn with it's mom so it didn't have to travel far for food and water. Gave it a few rounds of antibiotics and banamine. Vet had us give it 10 days straight of penicillin, like double the dose called out on the bottle. It eventually got better and let it out with the herd and he was running with the other calves. A few weeks later it relapsed and back to hobbling three lagged. Back to the barn yard and another couple weeks of daily high dose penicillin shots. Poor guy must have felt like a pin cushion. He could move pretty fast on three legs when he saw you coming with that syringe. After about 3 to 3-1/2 months he started getting over it and walked with a little limp. When we weaned him at 6 months you couldn't tell anything was ever wrong with him. We sold him with the rest of the feeders at 7 months, so long term I don't know if he every had any more issues or the lameness came back. It was a long road but he seamed to eventually make a full recovery. [/QUOTE]
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