Remember once my daughter had a 2 year old stud colt who was down with the colic. He was in misery. I called my friend who was a horse man. He came right over and told me what he was about to do would seem crazy. He always wore cowboy boots so that made it seem worse. He drew back and kicked that colt like he was mad at him. The colt farted like an explosion and got up and shook his back and was as good as new!
Back in about '66 my Grandfathers' bull Shorty was flat on the ground and couldn't move because he was so bloated from breaking into the corn bin and gorging himself all night. Watched G-dad take a piece of plastic tubing and shove it down his throat and then lit the gas when it came out..about 3 minutes later Shorty was up and about like nothing ever happened. To a 10 year old...it was AWESOME!!
That works for simple bloat, but if it's volvulus and dilatation (twisted stomach) you can't pass a tube (esophagus is twisted shut) and have to either cast them and flip them (works sometimes) or cut and manually flip the guts (Works most times). Either way with a V&D you put 'em on a trailer and sell them to the packinghouse as soon as you can. My professors called that the Ship-a-cillin treatment or the Trailermycin treatment, depending on their mood.
Where we live we drive through University of Georgia pasture and farm land to get just about anywhere. Seems like a lot of the cattle have plugs in their sides. I've wondered what that was about.
Ahhh...OK.
ReplyDeleteHell of a job to have though.
Can you imagine the stench?
DeleteI grew up in Iowa. You ALWAYS stand UPWIND of this procedure! Not just stench, but the spray...
DeleteFarming ain’t easy
ReplyDeleteMaybe that's what needs to be done to all them whales riding around the supermarkets on electric scooters.... Just bloated. Give em a little poke.
ReplyDeleteCareful about the "poke" you're suggesting.... Walmart might object unless you're out in the parking lot.
DeleteRemember once my daughter had a 2 year old stud colt who was down with the colic. He was in misery. I called my friend who was a horse man. He came right over and told me what he was about to do would seem crazy. He always wore cowboy boots so that made it seem worse. He drew back and kicked that colt like he was mad at him. The colt farted like an explosion and got up and shook his back and was as good as new!
ReplyDeleteBack in about '66 my Grandfathers' bull Shorty was flat on the ground and couldn't move because he was so bloated from breaking into the corn bin and gorging himself all night. Watched G-dad take a piece of plastic tubing and shove it down his throat and then lit the gas when it came out..about 3 minutes later Shorty was up and about like nothing ever happened. To a 10 year old...it was AWESOME!!
ReplyDeleteThat works for simple bloat, but if it's volvulus and dilatation (twisted stomach) you can't pass a tube (esophagus is twisted shut) and have to either cast them and flip them (works sometimes) or cut and manually flip the guts (Works most times). Either way with a V&D you put 'em on a trailer and sell them to the packinghouse as soon as you can. My professors called that the Ship-a-cillin treatment or the Trailermycin treatment, depending on their mood.
DeleteWhere we live we drive through University of Georgia pasture and farm land to get just about anywhere. Seems like a lot of the cattle have plugs in their sides. I've wondered what that was about.
ReplyDeleteSince it's University pasture, it's probably not about bloat. It's probably a study of digestion.
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Sometimes they'll do a full-on surgical 'fistula' for digestive studies instead of just a cannula.
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