Which supplement might help with bloating?

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Tex

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Just curious which supplement you thought might help with bloating?  The vet was telling me that a supplement with pro biotics would help.  Which would have high probiotic levels?
 

Silver

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Probios makes something that will work for you. Whether its pills or pastes I think they have something that would work.
 

kanshow

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baking soda..  although when we are just bringing them up on feed, we put a bloat guard block in the pen
 

fordkindagirl

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Probiotics- FastTrack (we give a Probios paste twice a month too)
Baking Soda- we give .5-1 oz a day
Immediate bloat relief- Just your standard Bloat Drench (we get it from Sullivan's)
 

OLD WORLD SHORTIE

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weve got one cow that has a huge rib set to her, when she is heavy bred she always looks bloated to me. freaking scary
 

kvhranch

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We fed Optizyme all summer to the steer - never had any issues.  It's usually used in horses, but is good in cattle also.  It was like $12.50 a bag and we went through a bag a month.
 

LostFarmer

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I always keep a bloat guard block in the pen.  I also ordered the powdered version of the stuff to be used in a TMR.  It works great as a top dress for a chronic bloater and also in some capsules as  boluses for one that is just puffy. 
 

Meurer

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where did you get the bloat guard powder....Ive used the block and the bloat gurard liquid but Im having a hard time finding the poweder...If you can let me know where you are getin it, that would really help me out.
 

LostFarmer

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Valley Wide feed Coop is where I have gotten it in the past.  I have to special order and a bag is expensive but lasts a year or 2 the way we use it.  LF
 

Freddy

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Use to have lots of problems with bloat, would lost one or two a year feeding show an sale cattle .  One of Mana-Pro rep sent a ration an I used it but they had a 1.5 lb of Mana- E  to a ton an didn't use it because I didn't think it would do any good with that small amount.  Lost another critter shortly after that an decided I better get some Mana-E an have been using it in every ton of feed fed for show cattle.... Never have a bloat  or any problems ,but also believe that free choice of good prarie hay is a must , one of my friends was having trouble with fat steer an got him some good hay an fed him some an stopped his bloat ... Hope this helps but these are a couple things that have sure helped nme....They say those people that feed the carloads for Denver usually lose one or two a year getting them ready ...
 

LostFarmer

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Depends on the bloat cause.  We had one old cow that would stand and suck wind.  She bloated every time the wind blew over 20 miles per hour for very long.  In my experience barley and alfalfa together is a recipe for bloat.  Alfalfa pasture right after a touch of frost is bad.  Different bloats go down with different methods.  I look at bloat like colic in horses.  It is the generic term for air in the gut but it is much more technical than that. 

The worst bloat I have ever seen was a cow that got into the dug potato field and was eating the small tubers that were left on top of the ground and also the frost nipped alfalfa.  She was in trouble when we got to her.  I opened her up over 6 inches on the side to save her.  Sold her about 3 months later but at least I didn't bury her. 

The best management tool for me with bloat is to keep cattle full.  When the get hungry and then tank up is when the problem usually erupts.  LF
 
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