As with all of us sometimes you run across an issue you cant explain. I'm wondering if anyone on here has ever seen something similar?
We had a bull calf born the 15th with no issues, up, drank and happily bobbing around. At the time I found one thing strange the way he moved behind, he would cross his hind legs as he walked. I figured being a new born he was still getting use to his body or the genes didn't line up so well and he had the notorious Simmental swagger?
he was doing fine, although I noticed he was lazier then the other calves until two days ago. Things started to get vary bazaar, to the point that the vets, yes there where a few, and they are as lost as I am. He flops over, he will walk and just fall completely to his side. At times he will walk in small circles about two feet wide, and the strangest part is he will drop to his front knees and do a complete 360 with his knees in place and his hind end circling. He will then get up, and walk completely normal, go to his front knees and walk around the pen again, hind end up and walking with his knees. sometimes when he falls over he starts acting like hes running. he Carry's his head low like a sick calf, but his ears in the normal position. At one point he was lifting his head, twisting it around and rolling over backwards. He hunches his spin at times and then normal a few minutes later. We checked to see if he was blind in the beginning as he would run into walls and as soon as he started that, he stopped, and there is no issue there. This calf has no fever, his heart and lungs are clear, blood is clear, eyes, nose clear. We have given him Bose, Nuflor, penicillin, vitamin boosts and electrolytes with no results. Nothing makes sense. He was nursing fine but now he wont, so we have been tube feeding him. besides this strange behavior he was growing normally, and nothing seems off. He is an ET calf, and his two siblings are perfectly normal. Pure Simmental. My only guess is nerve or brain issues but I wanted to see if any members have ever come across something like this? Oh and his birthing was uneventful.
We had a bull calf born the 15th with no issues, up, drank and happily bobbing around. At the time I found one thing strange the way he moved behind, he would cross his hind legs as he walked. I figured being a new born he was still getting use to his body or the genes didn't line up so well and he had the notorious Simmental swagger?
he was doing fine, although I noticed he was lazier then the other calves until two days ago. Things started to get vary bazaar, to the point that the vets, yes there where a few, and they are as lost as I am. He flops over, he will walk and just fall completely to his side. At times he will walk in small circles about two feet wide, and the strangest part is he will drop to his front knees and do a complete 360 with his knees in place and his hind end circling. He will then get up, and walk completely normal, go to his front knees and walk around the pen again, hind end up and walking with his knees. sometimes when he falls over he starts acting like hes running. he Carry's his head low like a sick calf, but his ears in the normal position. At one point he was lifting his head, twisting it around and rolling over backwards. He hunches his spin at times and then normal a few minutes later. We checked to see if he was blind in the beginning as he would run into walls and as soon as he started that, he stopped, and there is no issue there. This calf has no fever, his heart and lungs are clear, blood is clear, eyes, nose clear. We have given him Bose, Nuflor, penicillin, vitamin boosts and electrolytes with no results. Nothing makes sense. He was nursing fine but now he wont, so we have been tube feeding him. besides this strange behavior he was growing normally, and nothing seems off. He is an ET calf, and his two siblings are perfectly normal. Pure Simmental. My only guess is nerve or brain issues but I wanted to see if any members have ever come across something like this? Oh and his birthing was uneventful.