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Seen anything like this?

This calf was born today. At first I thought it was just a foot turned under...that might possibly straiten out with time, and maybe a little intervention. But.....it's not. It's actually broken....compound fracture with the bone stickin out. But....it's not a fresh break, the leg is stiff and you can't move it. The skin is all healed up around the bone, and what is stickin out isn't much bigger than, oh maybe like half a marble. And it's relatively smooth. There's no swellin whatsoever, no blood....

So my question is...how would a calfs leg get broke before birth?

Here's pics...






Makes me sick....other than the foot/leg...she's a perfectly nice heifer calf. :roll: We've had problems the last couple days with a pack of dogs. So to prevent mama from havin to protect her calf from the dog pack or coyotes, and gettin torn up in the process....we decided to go ahead and put the calf down. Hate that part of this job...

Few more pictures from our afternoon around the pasture...remember the flood waters??? Here's what it did to one of our brand new fences.....looks like fun work :wink:




This is what it now looks like after I disked and all the rain.....grass is growin good.


And the tanks are full..... so it's not all bad:D
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