Cattle breeders are most afraid of rumen swelling, and this is how I prevent rumen swelling

Prevention and treatment of bovine rumen dilation

Because ruminants eat a large amount of feed that is easy to ferment, they quickly produce a large amount of gas and cause the rumen to expand sharply. Fattening cattle feeding urea and drinking water immediately can also cause the disease.

Symptoms are more common during or shortly after the feeding process. Initially restless, looking back at the abdomen, kicking the abdomen with the right limb, arching the dorsal waist, rapidly expanding the abdomen, and protruding from the hunger socket, especially on the left side, which can be as high as a wide nodule or dorsal midline. Rumination and belching stop, tension and elasticity of the left starvation fossa on palpation, drumming on percussion, decreased rumen peristalsis on auscultation, height difficulty breathing, blue-purple visible mucosa, increased heart beats, increased pulse. In the later stages, sick animals breathe with their mouths open, and their gait is unstable or they cannot lie on the ground. If left untreated, they can quickly die from asphyxia or cardiac paralysis.

Prevention The disease is often caused by eating a large amount of fermentable feed, or delicate and juicy grass with dew or alfalfa grass, lees and frost grass, or spoiled feed. Therefore, it is usually necessary to feed the cattle in a limited amount of fermented feed. It is forbidden to feed poor quality hay to prevent overeating, and timely detection and timely treatment.

Treatment The disease should be treated promptly. The principle of exhausting gases to reduce stress, stop fermentation and restore rumen function as soon as possible should be the principle. The disease progresses rapidly, and delayed treatment can quickly lead to death. Therefore, the diagnosis should be confirmed quickly and rescued in time. When the belly circumference of the affected cow is not too large, a wooden stick coated with pine oil or large sauce can be placed in the mouth of the cow to make the sick cow chew continuously and promote belching. When the abdominal circumference is significantly expanded and breathing is highly difficult, a rumen puncture should be performed immediately to release gas. Immediately after the gas is released, a drug to stop fermentation is injected into the rumen. It can be taken internally to make ferments or stomach boosters, ginger tinctures, gentian tinctures, garlic tinctures and other stomach medicines, or intravenously injected with concentrated saline, or internally taken with lyches. After the swelling stops, laxatives can be taken internally to excrete rumen contents. 50 to 100 grams of tobacco leaves can be crushed, add 500 ml of vegetable oil, and boil with a spoon. After going to the heat, put in 100 grams of peppers, fry the yellow to a degree, immediately fish out the peppers, add the appropriate amount of water after the oil is cool, and give the cattle 1 time.