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leg splint for a weanling

  • 25-11-2010 11:06pm
    #1
    dar31
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,704 ✭✭✭


    any advice on how to splint a rear leg on a weanling.
    it got poly wire caught around rear foot just above ankle and seems to have knackered ligaments or some thing. douth she will ever come right, just need to get leg to heal and fatten her(fr).
    she can stand on it when still, but it knuckles over when she goes to move.
    will have another casualty one fattening up so this one can go with her.
    any advise appreciated before i do a bodge job myself


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  • #2
    theroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 167 ✭✭theroad


    Had a weanling a few years ago that broke her leg at the ankle, at least that's what the vet said. He strapped the leg and put it inside a piece of wavin pipe for six weeks & we kept her on straw bedding the whole time. She healed but was never fully right and finished out poorly.


  • #3
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,753 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    A no 6 cartridge between its left ear-right eye and its right ear- left eye:eek:

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #4
    leg wax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,296 ✭✭✭leg wax


    blue5000 wrote: »
    A no 6 cartridge between its left ear-right eye and its right ear- left eye:eek:
    why not put the animal into the factory?


  • #5
    blue5000
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    They usually get condemned and you're putting more stress on an already injured animal. Impossible round here to get a dept vet to let you slaughter it on farm as a casualty and take it to the factory.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #6
    Figerty
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    If you could put her out on soft bedding, or with access to a dry field she might come around. If she ison concrete then forget about it.

    Had a Heifer once that jumped off a wall, broke her front left leg. Vet put a cast on it. We put her in to an old hay shed with plenty room and she came right after about six week.Got great attention at the mart later and made the same price as the rest.

    I do remember the vet saying if it was a back leg she would be put down. It wouldn't be easy cast a rear leg, but if she is getting up and down on it she might come around in the long run.




    dar31 wrote: »
    any advice on how to splint a rear leg on a weanling.
    it got poly wire caught around rear foot just above ankle and seems to have knackered ligaments or some thing. douth she will ever come right, just need to get leg to heal and fatten her(fr).
    she can stand on it when still, but it knuckles over when she goes to move.
    will have another casualty one fattening up so this one can go with her.
    any advise appreciated before i do a bodge job myself


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  • #7
    davy12
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭davy12


    Get the vet out. He can eithe splint it up or put it down for you.


  • #8
    melly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37 ✭melly


    We had a cull cow with a similar problem. The hoofpairer was out and got him to look at her and reccommended this. Get an old plastic shute (or plastic pipe cut in half).Cut long enough from the back of the knee to the ground.Line with cotton wool so not to cut the leg. bandage to the leg. Wrap the whole leg and splint with cotton wool again and bandage completely. The vet saw her afterwards and said that he ould have done the same. She went to the factory eventually as a casualty but the vet down there was happier to see her with a bandage on..


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