The three year old charolais heifer was trying to get back to her weaned calf - she is away from home on agistment and we had carted the calves home. The owner of the property checked the 100 plus heifers twice, he said, but missed seeing this one caught up in the fence as she was flat on her side. Been there a day and a half.
We went and lifted her up with a tractor and brought her the 50 miles home in the trayback on dirt road.....She has a lot of hide off and is massively bruised and swollen,(from being in the fence, not the ride home where she was packed with hay) but the main injury of worry is that she has worn a hunk of hide and flesh out of the inside of her backleg, above the hock, trying to get off a steel stay pipe. The hole is about three inches square and the bone is totally exposed, but not broken. I scrubbed it all out best I could and now have it packed with a pad soaked in iodine. She's had anti-inflammatories and oxy-tetracycline. The heifer can't sit up unaided, is fairly unresponsive, but is drinking well - not eating. I think she should be shot but hubby wants to give her a chance. I know there's no good news but I feel better for sharing anyway!!
We went and lifted her up with a tractor and brought her the 50 miles home in the trayback on dirt road.....She has a lot of hide off and is massively bruised and swollen,(from being in the fence, not the ride home where she was packed with hay) but the main injury of worry is that she has worn a hunk of hide and flesh out of the inside of her backleg, above the hock, trying to get off a steel stay pipe. The hole is about three inches square and the bone is totally exposed, but not broken. I scrubbed it all out best I could and now have it packed with a pad soaked in iodine. She's had anti-inflammatories and oxy-tetracycline. The heifer can't sit up unaided, is fairly unresponsive, but is drinking well - not eating. I think she should be shot but hubby wants to give her a chance. I know there's no good news but I feel better for sharing anyway!!