Abstract

Study on the Prevalence of Bovine Frothy Bloat in and Around Kebele Lencha, Tokke Kutaye District, Oromia Region

Highlights

  • Bloating is a disease that studied in agricultural writing since at least A.D.60

  • This study revealed that frothy bloat is the most common and high mortality rate compared to free gas bloat in bovine species

  • The current study showed that the high prevalence of frothy bloat and its impact on economy, animals are dying; the research center and some Veterinary sector did not focus on the awareness and treatment of non-infectious digestive disease of bovine species

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Introduction

Bloating is a disease that studied in agricultural writing since at least A.D.60. English journals of the 18th and 19th centuries describe the disease using various terms like: hoove, hoven, tympany and blow [1]. A bellyful of gas was attributed to a poison, to excessive gas production, or to blockage caused by the excessive consumption of dense feed. These and other explanations were the objects of experimental research in several countries from the 1940s to the 1960s [2]. In Ethiopia, the term given for bloat is “Bokooksaa” in afan Oromo. The term ruminal tympany is an over distension of the rumen with gas of fermentation either in the form of persistent foam mixed with ruminal contents or in the form of free gas separated from ingesta [3,4]

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