What’s wrong with this calf ?
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Boot Jack Bulls
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Does't look like a dwarf at all. If he was, his cannon bones would be half as long as they are at this point. Is he over in his knees or walking on his tippy toes? He almost looks like an extreme case of contracted tendons, but I suspect is it just poor structure on his front third, that has been slowing him down and compromising his growth since birth...
Muddy
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He appears to be healthy, just slow growing.
sim.-ang.king
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As a calf he looked like a chronic, they sometimes don't show any other signs beside looking like crap. Use to get about 20 out of 1000 pigs that would be all runty, and look bad all the time, with long course hair, would call them knot heads. Antibiotics didn't do any good, nor giving them any special treatment. When the other pigs would be finished they would be 1/2 the size. Just takes them longer to get up to speed. Next years calf maybe just fine again.
Nesikep
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My friend raise a runt piglet bottle baby.. Looked normal, just grew slow.sim.-ang.king said:
I had a calf just like this last year. I don't have the greatest pic of him but this is him. I got him from a local rancher. He's 18 months in this pic and smaller than a 8 month old jersey calf I had at the time. He never grew much. Short stubby thick legs. No neck. Odd calf. Mine was a shorthorn. It was also an orphan and also only had one testical
farmerjan
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Baby beef when the calves come off the cows in the fall. Just the luck of the draw sometimes in the gene dept.
