Calf with bloat

Mulumpy

I have a calf with bloat that keeps recurring. Third day in a row relieving gas with tube. Doesn't seem in much discomfort. He's grazing away and picking at straw. Is there anything I can do without piercing is side.

Wessel3

Hi there I put a thread about pot belly in calf's have a check on I some great advise from others

Mulumpy

Thanks different problem to pot belly though

_Brian

We only had it bad once, put calf in shed on straw and water for a few days and was ok after, is the grass very soft growth ?

Mulumpy

They are on good grass but wouldn't call it lush. Calf is 4 months old

Sam Kade

Mix linseed oil with the ration.

Mooooo

Does he gorge on the ration more than the rest? Would liquid paraffin help I wonder or

shrek008

Bottle about a pint of cooking oil into him, the kind you would fry your chips in, that will neutralize the froth in his stomach thats causing the bloat.

Mulumpy

Might give the oil a try thanks

K.G.

Give 3 or 4 cc of penstrep.it deadens the bacteria in the stomach for a while

Attie

Mulumpy I have 15 acres with lots of clover in it cattle bloat like mad on it usually limit intake and give straw until they get used to it might take 1/2 weeks for this to happen.