Bloat??

[Asburytl]

Look like bloat? What should be my course of action?

[myheaven]

Do you have a stomach tube and mineral oil? How large is this bovine age and weight.

[Amadioranch]

Ill second the oil. In a pinch vegetable cooking oil works just fine too. Do it before it gets too bad. Once its past a point them you have no choice but to stick them thru the side. That works too but is far more traumatic.

[myheaven]

If you have not dealt with bloat before you may need to call in a vet. You need to get the air out. Add in baking soda and mineral oil. You may need a torchar to keep this critter fr bloating more.

[billinwv]

In a pinch, a piece of garden hose will work. Insert it very carefully. You may get stomach fluid spewing out. Good if that happens. A pint of any kind of food grade oil will reduce frothing and allow the calf to burp. Bloat normally causes a lot of discomfort with belly kicking. IF the calf is choked inserting the hose will help with that also.

[wannabfishin]

Originally Posted by DoubleR

My thoughts......
What is this calf eating? Did it get into excess grain?
From the photos to me it looks like a mild maybe moderate case of excess gas and a FULL tummy. Depending on what it ate or the situation leading up to this I'd leave it be. Again, that depends on the situation. Not knowing what it's been eating etc leading up to those pictures it's hard to tell.
Does it act normal or seriously uncomfortable? Does it act like it's having a hard time breathing at all?

yes i had a bottle calf that wasnt weaned yet get loose and drank who knows how much water out of a tub. it looked like a barrel with legs.

[Asburytl]

Around 4m. No grain, but did get into some alfalfa.

Anybody ever use Therabloat with a wine bottle? Someone recommended that to me.

[Asburytl]

Also, doesn't seem to have a hard time breathing and doesn't appear to be belly kicking. Maybe a little slow on the get up from the ground, but doesn't appear to be acting sick.

[Allen W]

Alfalfa will do it. Has it went down yet?

[sassafras manor]

In my experience with bloat I had a 400 lb Holstein steer that overdosed on clover and was walking backwards around the pasture and periodically leaning against barbwire fence. I guided him, backwards of course, back to the barn and closed him in a stall with nothig other than hay and water. My vet told me that once he sat down to rock him back and forth until he started belching. Once he started thta he improve rather quickly and survived.

[wr]

Originally Posted by Asburytl

Also, doesn't seem to have a hard time breathing and doesn't appear to be belly kicking. Maybe a little slow on the get up from the ground, but doesn't appear to be acting sick.

If there is no severe distress, get him moving around a bit before you resort to extreme measures.