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4 month old calf big belly or bloated

  • 12-05-2011 8:43pm
    #1
    ltec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 62 ✭✭


    I have owned the calf a month now. It has been really thriving compared to the rest but its belly seems to be getting really big, im starting to worry about it a bit. Its on meal and straw and eats flat out, even its bedding. My father thought it might be drinking too much but its not drinking anymore than the rest. I must get a picture up on saturday when i get time


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  • #2
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    could be an infection in through the navel ... had a bull with this earlier on this year, his belly bloated up a good bit


  • #3
    what happen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭what happen


    whelan1 wrote: »
    could be an infection in through the navel ... had a bull with this earlier on this year, his belly bloated up a good bit
    how is the bull now and how did you fix it and what caused it.


  • #4
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,807 ✭✭✭Birdnuts


    ltec wrote: »
    I have owned the calf a month now. It has been really thriving compared to the rest but its belly seems to be getting really big, im starting to worry about it a bit. Its on meal and straw and eats flat out, even its bedding. My father thought it might be drinking too much but its not drinking anymore than the rest. I must get a picture up on saturday when i get time

    Worms??


  • #5
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    what happen wrote: »
    how is the bull now and how did you fix it and what caused it.
    we fattened the bull up as it was an on going problem... vet said it was an infection in the navel at birth we sold him to factory as we could not sell him for breeding the way he was , we got€1300 for him .


  • #6
    Finno59
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 177 ✭✭Finno59


    has he normal manure? we have a yearling bullock with the same bloat. high on left. vet said he'd be ok so left him in to go down and he went up again once we put him out.


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  • #7
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    Finno59 wrote: »
    has he normal manure? we have a yearling bullock with the same bloat. high on left. vet said he'd be ok so left him in to go down and he went up again once we put him out.
    sounds the same as our bull... we treated him with bloatguard and injections a few times but it was a waste of time and money


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