Today we shipped 5,776 gallons of milk and had two heifer calves born! Happy fourth of July! The girls are celebrating with some delicious hay 📣📣📣
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
Bloat
Cows have a unique diet and it is very important for us to ensure that our girls have a healthy microbiome. A microbiome refers to the microorganisms that naturally inhabit our cow, and there are tons of these guys living inside their stomach. Many microbes play a vital role in nutrient absorption and utilization. Once in a while when feeding cows we might observe one that will blow up like a balloon with an enlarged stomach due to an overproduction and inability to release gas. Ensuring the animal has a healthy and diverse microbiome can help to prevent bloating from ever occurring. Bloating can cause extreme pressure buildup and in severe situations a cow may pass from asphyxiation. If this were to happen and we catch it early we would be able to relieve the cow by inserting a needle directly into the left side of the animals flank and it is possible to hear and smell the gas escaping! I have done this a few times since working at the farm and you can see the relief in the animals eyes almost instantly. It is such an incredible experience.
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