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Clinical symptoms after immobilisation using Plaster of Paris cast with splints, transfixation pinning with plaster cast and cast with gum bandages and splints in metacarpal fracture healing in calves was studied. Alt the three techniques were. found to be sat~.sfactory. Gum bandage cast applied for immobilisation was found to be a suitable substitute for Plaster of Paris cast. Evaluation of progress of healing radiographically showed partial displacear_ent of fragments in some animals but it did not interfere with the progress of callus ossifcation.