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Dexter’s New Leg Brace!

Posted March 16, 2021 in Health Updates

In Summer 2020, I was contacted about a female calf on a small hobby farm in Wisconsin where she was born in the middle of the night and got stuck under a rock in a ravine during a storm.

She hurt her leg and the only way to save the leg was to fuse the joint altogether, which now acts as a peg leg. She made a full recovery and received her new brace! Read her full story here – Dexter’s Story

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Dan McKernan
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