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Faunsdale, AL | If you have any ACE bandages etc, take a heavy towel or two and make a THICK bandage around the leg, extending above and below the break and wrap it very tightly with the ACE bandages, secure with tape. If no ace bandages, you can use duct tape over the towel. Put him in a small area where he can stay clean and dry, but away from direct contact with the herd so he doesn't do too much moving around trying to keep up etc. This should keep him in pretty good shape until you can get him cast. That kind of break will likely heal with a fiberglass cast put on. If he's the temperament to take it easy, it might heal with just the heavy bandage on it or even just leaving him alone but in a small pen or stall etc.
There is a walking splint that can be used for bulls and heavy calves (doesn't work for cows because of the udder and the fact that few are athletic enough to carry it around). It has a circle or oval of rod that goes around the thigh extending up into the groin next to the scrotum and then from that, the "leg" extends down on both sides of the calf's leg to the hock and along the lower leg to a foot plate that carries the weight. The whole thing is padded and taped onto the leg with the toes of the hoof being drilled and wired into the foot plate. The ecomonics of most bulls doesn't make it an attractive option for most owners. Only in very special cases. Temperament has a lot to do with the success of this kind of thing.
I really doubt your calf needs that, a simple cast will likely work OK.
Edited by ccjersey 12/25/2012 01:06
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Calf with broken leg, what are the options?
