Showing with a scar/injury?

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Show Heifer

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I have a calf I was going to show in a few months....she injured her ankle and is now going to have a scar and proud flesh. Their might be some swelling that is permenant. She is not lame, nor does it hurt her gait.
So, should I go ahead and show her? Is her scar going to hurt her in class?
 

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If she her stride is not messed up I can't see where it would be a problem.  I remember back when I was a kid there was a steer that won the Purdue AGR with only one claw on a front foot.  Didn't even notice it unless you started looking at his feet, walked like a cat
 

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Show Heifer said:
I have a calf I was going to show in a few months....she injured her ankle and is now going to have a scar and proud flesh. Their might be some swelling that is permenant. She is not lame, nor does it hurt her gait.
So, should I go ahead and show her? Is her scar going to hurt her in class?

Paint the scar, maybe apply some finely cut twine to the scar to cover it and then paint it and block it in with the rest of the hair.
 

Show Heifer

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Painting is allowed at the show, but twining is not. But she is still sound.....tracks like a perfect machine. But am concerned the swelling will be looked at as a "structural soundness problem', and not an injury. It is on her show side. :(

I guess if she wins she will be considered "a great one" and if not, just an average heifer huh!!??  :p
 

Dusty

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Well if twining is not allowed, when you clip her save some of the longer and thicker hair and use that then.  Then it's not twining and its not fake hair either.  It's her hair..  Then, you're in the the grey area, where there is no right or wrong....
 

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would you want to use adhesive and all that stuff on proud flesh??????????  just seems like it would irritate it more.....
 

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I haven't ever seen a wound that lasted a few months, that must be one vicious wound??
 

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I'd work on trying to get the proud flesh down and just making it less obvious.  You say the show is in a couple months?  You might make quite a difference by then.. of course, saying this without seeing the wound.     
 

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I could tell you what our vet has us spray on something like that to get the swelling out but you probably wouldn't like it.  But since you aren't eating her or showing her anytime soon, it wouldn't hurt a thing to help get it healed up quicker.

I've never seen anything better than the Corona cream to minimize a scar and help something heal up once an infection is gone.  You shouldn't still have prowed flesh that far down the road.  

The scar part shouldn't be a big deal in the show, especially there.  Like others said, paint it.  
 

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Prom King said:
What is your opinion on frost bit ears?? how much can be gone before you should just keep them home??

Right or wrong, my nephue has a shorty steer this year that has frost bit ears.  I would even go on a limb and say full frost bit ears.  His nose is frostbit as well as his tail.  We purchased him from a friend of ours and he is a really good steer.  My pholosophy is - you don't eat the ears.  We didnt' jack pot him or anything- not that I don' t think we could have  ;)

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To your question Show heifer-
My cousin had a heifer that got a broken ankel/pastern during delivery.  He showed her a couple of times and she did ok.  You could tell if you looked at the joint, but based off her movement she was fine.  On the other hand I had a heifer rip off the outside part of her hoof once.  I never showed her again because she always stood funny on her back legs after that.  She is just fine as a cow though.

Good luck with her either way

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KCK

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I showed a heifer with one frost bit ear. It was on her off show side and the only effect it had on her was her attitude. Since she didn't have they ear length to shield her from some movements, she could be a bit jumpy and irritable. Other than that and fly control, it was never a bother. She did really well in the showring and no judge ever commented on it other than to use it as a descriptive term.

Good luck!
 

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Blemishes shouldn't affect class placement, but they do. Judges seem to relate blemishes to some type of genetic weakness. Real or not.
 
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