Relevant Products
- Actisaf Yeast (PDF)
- Rock salt
The following situations can result in bloat: –
- Lack of any forage in the diet
- Breed differences (higher in Holsteins due to high dry matter intake)
- Yeast inclusion can help where high starch levels are fed
- Cereal variety, due to high fermentation rate
- Rock salt can be used to encourage saliva production and therefore buffer the rumen
- Production of slime is related to strep. bovis which is related to shortage of available energy
- Cattle with severe chronic pneumonia or hardware disease (foreign bodies in gut) may develop free-gas bloat due to damage of vagus nerve and impaired rumen motility
- Processing of cereal –over processing can result in bloat conditions, this may come about from excessive roller wear for example
- Feed trough management can result in mouldy feed which can result in bloat conditions