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Calf with neurological issues?
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<blockquote data-quote="SDM" data-source="post: 1842754" data-attributes="member: 29631"><p>I'd stick it out if you can and it's not suffering. When we first moved here, my wife's uncle gave me a bottle calf. Cow went nuts, tried to kill it, broke its leg, and jumped the fence. Took them a few days to round her up. Meanwhile they splinted the leg and Uncle was bottle feeding him. As it got colder (they calve in early fall) he offered it to me. Probably weighed 175# by then. Wouldn't walk in a straight line and kept its head tilted. I hadn't built any fence so put it in a stall in the barn. First thing it did was climb the wall, flip on its back, legs straight up in the air, rolled over and layed stone still for probably 30 seconds. I thought it died but it got up. It wasn't mean, but very unpredictable. He would kinda spazz out if you went in the stall, so I avoided that. When he finished a bottle, he'd go down on his front knees and just push around the stall with his back legs. Ended up with another bottle calf a couple months later but kept them separate because it was so much smaller. Got some fence built over the winter. Turned them out together that spring and all the unpredictability, spastic stuff ended instantly. I think some of it was wanting to be around other cattle. He still kept his head tilted, couldn't walk straight and that leg was little bowed, but he was fine. Was just under 700# when I sold him. They graded him well and he looked good in the ring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SDM, post: 1842754, member: 29631"] I'd stick it out if you can and it's not suffering. When we first moved here, my wife's uncle gave me a bottle calf. Cow went nuts, tried to kill it, broke its leg, and jumped the fence. Took them a few days to round her up. Meanwhile they splinted the leg and Uncle was bottle feeding him. As it got colder (they calve in early fall) he offered it to me. Probably weighed 175# by then. Wouldn't walk in a straight line and kept its head tilted. I hadn't built any fence so put it in a stall in the barn. First thing it did was climb the wall, flip on its back, legs straight up in the air, rolled over and layed stone still for probably 30 seconds. I thought it died but it got up. It wasn't mean, but very unpredictable. He would kinda spazz out if you went in the stall, so I avoided that. When he finished a bottle, he'd go down on his front knees and just push around the stall with his back legs. Ended up with another bottle calf a couple months later but kept them separate because it was so much smaller. Got some fence built over the winter. Turned them out together that spring and all the unpredictability, spastic stuff ended instantly. I think some of it was wanting to be around other cattle. He still kept his head tilted, couldn't walk straight and that leg was little bowed, but he was fine. Was just under 700# when I sold him. They graded him well and he looked good in the ring. [/QUOTE]
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