Heather Smith Thomas

The reader’s description is correct when discussing a vaginal prolapse. This is due to weak attachments, which tend to be hereditary.

And yes, it’s wise to cull the animal and never keep offspring from that one – male or female, since a bull whose mother had this defect will sire daughters with the same defect.

On the other hand, a prolapsed uterus is a one-time event and you would rarely see this happen again in that cow.

Dr. Robert Callan, a DVM at Colorado State University, also responded, citing two studies that “indicate the lack of evidence that one uterine prolapse predisposes to another in a future calving.

“The primary reason why this is not so is that the believed mechanism for uterine prolapse is lack of myometrial tone, most commonly due to hypocalcemia or prolonged labor due to dystocia leading to myometrial fatigue. This would generally be a one-time incident.”  nbsp;

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