Okay, admittedly, this is our second year of steers so we don't know enough. We brought the steer home last weekend and have been working on getting him use to being tied up. So this past week he has been tied up just enough so he learns to not resist it. But yesterday we decided to start raising his head. We know enough not to take him super high all at once but as we were just trying to get him pulled up - probably with his head close to show height - within a minute, he acted like he passed out and would just fall over. If you released the rope he would immediately get up. If you didn't he would lay there for a couple of minutes and then kind of fight to get up.
Anyone got any ideas? We were doing this last night and our vet charges a fortune for a weekend call and he's doing fine other than that. So I don't think it's life threatening. And if he had been tied up a bunch I would have thought it was something to try and get out of being tied up. But it happened the first time we tried to pull him up tighter.
Anyone got any ideas? We were doing this last night and our vet charges a fortune for a weekend call and he's doing fine other than that. So I don't think it's life threatening. And if he had been tied up a bunch I would have thought it was something to try and get out of being tied up. But it happened the first time we tried to pull him up tighter.