The causes of bloating in livestock can be a change of diet or eating over ripen fruit, young sorghum, leaves or vegetable leaves like cabbage and mollified.
Lying down for long time due to milk fever or by abstraction in animal’s food pip.
If these symptoms occur repeatedly the animals must have swallowed plastic, nails or leather which they cannot digest.
Prevention
Keep the shelter clean and removing all waste products.
Feed animals with dry foods before sending them to graze.
Do not give the animals water before or immediately after grazing on wet grass.
After cutting wet grass or fodder dry for some days before feeding.
Treatment
Make the animal walk around. This will help the trapped gas to escape from the stomach.
Put a wooden stick as thick as your thumb in the mouth and tying the stick around the neck with a rope will allow the animal chew the wooden stick but not swallow, this will help stimulate the salivation and helps to release the gas.
Make the sick animal drink two glass of cooking oil once a day for three days will help in reducing gas bubble in the rumen. For sheep make it drink only one glass.
Homemade remedies
Take 2 teaspoons ova seeds, 2 teaspoons ginger powder, 2 pinches hing powder. Mix with a handful surgery candy. For sheep and goats use the half. Make a sticky ball. Roof of the animal mouth before feeding. Do it once in a day for 2 days.
Also you can mix 2 teaspoons of ova seeds with 1 teaspoon of neem leaf powder, 2 teaspoons of fennel seed powder, with a handful sugary candy to make a sticky ball.
