▲ 65 r/Cattle
Took over a month but saved heifers leg.
Noticed one of our heifers had a swollen leg and wasn’t putting weight on it. Thought she broke it but she had a laceration just above her hoof and it got infected. We think it came from our new iron half pipe feed bunk that we noticed they like to stand on sometimes. Anyways it was quite a journey. Vet came out and drugged her so we could get her to lay still and flush her leg. Then antibiotics shots every 3 days for a week while also redressing her wound everyday for 2 weeks then every other day for 3 weeks. To now where it’s finally closed up all the way and she’s walking fairly nicely on it. She was a champ letting us get her in the chute and handling her hoof with ease. Worth every minute to see her out walking on it again
u/FarmerJoeJoe — 5 days ago