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Continued Progress Toward Controlling Bloat. A Review

Department of Animal Husbandry, University of California, Davis

ABSTRACT

Bloat has been characterized as an insidious disease (70). Conversely, many livestock producers are certain that a specific environmental factor such as dew, rain, or direction of the wind accounts for bloat on legume pasture. Since bloat can be readily produced or prevented experimentally, one can no longer refer to it as an insidious disease excepting in a limited sense: we still cannot define the conditions either of the legumes consumed or of the ruminant consuming them to accurately predict the severity of bloat resulting from a given regime; neither can we describe the predisposing conditions sufficiently accurately to produce bloat in 100% of animals subjected to a given treatment. As the condition of the plant consumed and the physiological state of the ruminant both determine whether bloat will occur, it is small wonder the term insidious has been used as a descriptive adjective.

The most encouraging aspect of current bloat research is its breadth, ranging from a study of physical and chemical characteristics of bloat-provoking and nonbloat-provoking plants to a study of the differences in the physiological mechanisms of bloating and nonbloating animals.

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