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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1110943" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Nice article, CKC.</p><p>The whole 'hanging 'em over a gate' deal is BS. Yeah, I did it for a while while in practice -but I'm pretty sure they didn't teach us that in vet school. </p><p>Calf's lungs are not 'full of fluid' - the air spaces are collapsed until the calf takes in a breath (or several) and inflates them. Sure, they may have some fluid in their mouth/nasal cavity/trachea, but hanging 'em upside down doesn't do anything to effectively get rid of that small amount of fluid, and the weight of their abdominal organs pressing on the diaphragm just makes it that much harder for the calf to breathe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1110943, member: 12607"] Nice article, CKC. The whole 'hanging 'em over a gate' deal is BS. Yeah, I did it for a while while in practice -but I'm pretty sure they didn't teach us that in vet school. Calf's lungs are not 'full of fluid' - the air spaces are collapsed until the calf takes in a breath (or several) and inflates them. Sure, they may have some fluid in their mouth/nasal cavity/trachea, but hanging 'em upside down doesn't do anything to effectively get rid of that small amount of fluid, and the weight of their abdominal organs pressing on the diaphragm just makes it that much harder for the calf to breathe. [/QUOTE]
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