Calve with turned in front feet

Toms820

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cornwall
Evening all quick question.
Just calved a cow and the calve has turned in feed like the tendon or muscle hasn’t relaxed. We had the same last year and the vet told me to give it a injection to help relax the muscle but I can’t remember for the life of me what. Anyone have this problem and have some home fixes we will splint the legs in abit once the cows calmed down.

cheers Tom.
 

Toms820

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cornwall
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The best I could get while she was trying to have a go. Dunno if it’s all that clear but the toe is all curled in like the muscle hasn’t relaxed
 

milkloss

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Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
We went through a stage of doing all sorts of stuff. My chap got in the habit of taking to the vet to get them snipped but ££. I won the argument over one to just leave it and it came fine after a week or two so that’s what we do now.

As long as they can scrabble about and get in the tit they usually come right.
 

Toms820

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cornwall
We had it last year on 2 calf’s one came right and one never did and ended up shot. That was with splinting the leg and manipulating and stretching the leg every day. Is there any reason as to why they have it? is it something to Development in the wome as it’s the same cow year after year.
 

Toms820

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cornwall
I did use ropes but the legs where already like that when I put my hand in as I had to untuck the legs as the calf was coming out head first legs curled up behind.
 

AGN76

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Location
north Wales
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This is one I battled with last year, he was knuckling on the leg I've got my hand on. As soon as we sorted that leg, the buckled one soon came right
 

Cowmangav

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Location
Ayrshire
I think it has a genetic aspect. We used to see more of it many years ago.
Very nearly despaired of a heifer calf about three years ago - but she came right after about three months.
 

Mixedupfarmer

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Location
Norfolk
Evening all quick question.
Just calved a cow and the calve has turned in feed like the tendon or muscle hasn’t relaxed. We had the same last year and the vet told me to give it a injection to help relax the muscle but I can’t remember for the life of me what. Anyone have this problem and have some home fixes we will splint the legs in abit once the cows calmed down.

cheers Tom.
We used to have a few of these and vet advised to give 10ml Alamycin LA as soon as possible after birth. I know it sounds crazy, but it worked every time as long as we injected soon after birth. Some were quite bad, and I doubt would have come right on their own. Prior to this we used different methods such as massaging and gently trying to stretch the tendons, splints/bandages etc, but nothing worked very well, and was time consuming. He had tried it on other farms, with similar success, but did not know the reason why it worked.
 

abitdaft

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Location
Scotland
Bandage under wadding ( like under a stookie /cast ) then over wrap with vet wrap obs with calves leg positioned correctly and close attention paid to tightness/ circulation and should come right.
 

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