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Originally posted by iheartbb:
Listen people, ties, bowties, recepies, white castle, whatever!!!!! This guy is ready to blow!
Woody, PLEASE!!!!!!
Well when I lived in Klamath County in Southern Oregon I got to know many cattle ranchers. Some of them had a quick fix for this problem ...
Bloat In Cattle: A Short TutorialBloat is the abnormal accumulation of gas in the ruminal forestomachs. Three categories of bloat are...
(1)
Frothy bloat caused by diets that lead to the formation of a stable froth or foam in the rumen.
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Free gas bloat caused by diets that lead to excessive gas production and concomitant low intraruminal pH.
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Free gas bloat caused by failure to eructate from extraruminal causes of gas accumulation such as esophageal obstruction.
When bloating occurs, these gases cannot escape, and they continue to build up and cause severe distention of the abdomen, compression of the heart and lungs, and eventually death. Oh my!
Only in extreme conditions should cattle ranchers relieve a case of bloat by using a knife to puncture the left paralumbar fossa and rumen. This procedure gives the animal some immediate relief, but it also causes the contents of the rumen to spill into the peritoneal cavity, which creates ideal conditions for a case of secondary peritonitis. Ewww!
Although this isn't the recommended method according to veterinarians, some of the ranchers I knew routinely used this method when it was known that the cattle were eating alfalfa that had not been cured properly...they didn't use a knife, instead they used this...
Something tells me that the fellow with the suspenders...with the big smile...would turn that smile to a frown when approached by a cattle rancher with an ice pick..."It's ok
Bossie...this won't hurt...much." I'll bet he would learn how to
eructate in a hurry!
