Bloat has not been solved in my part of the US. We experience bloat when
grazing green alfalfa, and also when grazing alfalfa roots if they are
beginning to sprout as they are right now in the first part of March.
To reduce the effects of bloat from alfalfa roots we keep the cows away from
them for a few days after plowing until they dry out some.
Carl Clinger
Lovelock, Nevada
>on 3/2/05 18:25, Liliana Sotomayor at whitsot@uio.satnet.net wrote:
> Dear Russ,
>
> It may be that bloat has been solved in the US, however there are many of us
> from other parts of the world who do graze and who have had to deal with
> this problem in a variety of ways when poloxalene or rumensin is too
> inconvenient or too expensive to use. I benefited greatly from this last
> string in new solutions to an old problem.
>
> Ian's insight into soil fertility is very interesting. Any comments on the
> effects of herbaceous plants such as plantago or Rumex in decreasing the
> risk of bloat?
>
> Thanks for all the input!
>
> Liliana Sotomayor, DVM
> Quito, Ecuador
> whitsot@uio.satnet.net
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: graze-l-admin@witt.ac.nz [mailto:graze-l-admin@witt.ac.nz]On
> Behalf Of Russ Thompson
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:59 PM
> To: graze-l@witt.ac.nz
> Subject: Re: [Graze-l] Bloat
>
>
>> My old friend bloat. I can remember those wonderful days of missing out
>> on meals day after day watching 180 of 200 cows float across the fence
>> lines blown up like balloons. It was one of our worst problems and part
>> of the reason we moved into organics. If the grass was green any stock
>> type was prone to blow. One year we dried the cows off a month early
>> just to have a break from chasing bloat.
>> So for my 2 cents worth.!!!
>
> *** Personaly I am surprised to see this discussion on bloat. I had thought
> that this was a long ago solved problem. At least for Americans.
>
> Russ Thompson
> Rogue Jerseys
> Richland Center, WI
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