Rural/Farm Life

it is amazing how many 3 legged critters there are out there. we have a cow that is the same, crippled a front leg somehow a long time ago. she was a bottle baby but whatever happened to her was after she was grown and back in the herd. she carries that leg but gets around, even up in the rocks on the hills. kind of freaks you out to find her half way up a mountain. she has had 3 calves and will hang around for handouts for a few days before she wants to go off on her own again.

a couple of years ago I was talking to the last large animal vet around here who also runs a small feedlot - he said he had a half dozen crippled cows, they do fine. he was going to feed them out and butcher, but as he collected them, he realized they were fine and AId them and now has a small herd of "differently abled" cows. LOL