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Thread: brain damaged calf

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    brain damaged calf

    we had a milking shorthorn cow calve yesterday and the calf turned out to have something wrong with tis brain and it kept rolling its head bakc it died later in the night just wondering wat would have caused this or is it heratil

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    Re: brain damaged calf

    Should ask your vet. A number of things could have been wrong. May have been in the breeding program, but it is just a guess that it might be a throwback. Mother nature took care of it.

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    Re: brain damaged calf

    yes my boiss called the vet but i wasnt there to here the diagnosis and my boss forget but ne ways the calf wasnt able
    to stand and we didnt want to tube it because it was lieing down so we were in a bit of a picklie lol and also the dam went 16 days over

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