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Malpresentation: foot jammed, frequency?
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<blockquote data-quote="Putangitangi" data-source="post: 450965" data-attributes="member: 5956"><p>Watching a fourth-calving cow the other evening, I noticed she wasn't showing normal signs of labour - just sitting, tail down, but mucous and blood present. She got up awkwardly and appeared to stagger just a little. About an hour later, she passed a bag of fluid and twenty minutes later a foot appeared. She's a cow whose calves are so streamlined that they have room to move their heads around and chomp on their tongues on the way out, so I was surprised by her difficulty. She's virtually tame and let me do a quick internal while she stood in the paddock, finding one foot hooked up on the pelvis somewhere under her tail head. I freed it and she had the calf in five minutes.</p><p></p><p>A vet friend tells me it's not an uncommon malpresentation, but it's not one I've come across before. Apparently the calf's foot can press on the spinal nerve, causing the partial paralysis in the hind legs.</p><p></p><p>I missed this previous thread, but good reading, thank you all: <a href="http://cattletoday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=428266" target="_blank">http://cattletoday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=428266</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Putangitangi, post: 450965, member: 5956"] Watching a fourth-calving cow the other evening, I noticed she wasn't showing normal signs of labour - just sitting, tail down, but mucous and blood present. She got up awkwardly and appeared to stagger just a little. About an hour later, she passed a bag of fluid and twenty minutes later a foot appeared. She's a cow whose calves are so streamlined that they have room to move their heads around and chomp on their tongues on the way out, so I was surprised by her difficulty. She's virtually tame and let me do a quick internal while she stood in the paddock, finding one foot hooked up on the pelvis somewhere under her tail head. I freed it and she had the calf in five minutes. A vet friend tells me it's not an uncommon malpresentation, but it's not one I've come across before. Apparently the calf's foot can press on the spinal nerve, causing the partial paralysis in the hind legs. I missed this previous thread, but good reading, thank you all: [url=http://cattletoday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=428266]http://cattletoday.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=428266[/url] [/QUOTE]
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