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Kansas | Yea, I think the success rate of hanging down cows and expecting them to walk again is a very low percentage.
I think in the past 15 years, if I had to make an educated guess, we've had 3 to 5 cows go down on us for some reason or another and I can only remember 1 successfully getting better and walking on their own and that the holding them in the air did any good.
We have a shed that one side is open and has a solid heavy pipe running down the center of the roof. We have used chains and come-a-longs attached to it to hoist the cow in the air with the baler belting around her.
At least it airs the bed sores and lets the body adjust to a standing positing internally for awhile instead of just laying on the ground continually.
Still, like you Greg, It's alot of work and it hasn't been very successful for us either.
Edited by Rich 12/27/2007 02:11
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Cow sling for downed cows.
