The old cow had been down for a while. She looked uncomfortable and her belly was as tight as a drum. The vet was called, and on arrival, the good doctor passed a tube through the cow’s mouth to her ...

Acute tympanites, also known as bloat, is a non-infectious disease common among ruminant animals. Bloat can become apparent when carbon dioxide and methane gases build up within a cow’s stomachs, ...

VERNON - Cattle deaths due to bloat are an economic loss, but the greater cost may come during the early stages of bloat, said a Texas Agricultural Experiment Station researcher at Vernon. "What you ...

VERNON -- A Texas A&M AgriLife Research animal nutritionist is trying to decrease the severity of frothy bloat, the major non-pathogenic cause of death and reduced performance in cattle grazing hard ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Beef producers should expand their knowledge about grass tetany and bloat to protect their cows, said a Purdue University expert. The recent temperature change from cold to warm ...

BLOAT (tympanites) in ruminants is characterized by distension of the forestomachs following interference with the normal elimination of gas produced by the microbial digestion of food in those organs ...

When a baby goat suddenly dies within hours of showing signs of discomfort or swelling, one of the likely culprits is abomasal bloat—a serious and usually fatal condition that affects mostly ...