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| I have a 2 year old Boer, female that looks like she is "blown up" everytime she eats. I am using probiotics, bloat treatments, and even dewormed her. She can "blow up" so much that I am not sure how she is even walking sometimes! I am stumped. Goats are a relatively new adventure for me, I have had three for a bit over a year. The others eat the same, etc. and are fine. Could her rumen be messed up? If so, how do you fix it? Thanks.
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| what I have read some goats get bloat eaiser then others and when that happens, you need to take them out of your breeding stock
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A goat bloating like that can mean allot. First make sure you have bicarb(baking soda) in the pen at all times. Bicarb is really good about taking down bloat and they go to it when they need it. Also if you are feeding rich alfalfa they will have a tendency to bloat and can get clousturdium, so make sure she has ruffy stemy hay to scratch her rumen and make it happy  . We have a buck who has bloat problems but that is from him being on the show circuit and being only feed grain and so his rumen never got to develope proper function, but a bloat block and bicarb help him, so if you got her from a stright grain diet that could be what she's doing. Good luck with her!
There are two types of people:Those who can walk away from the farm and those who cannot. Those who can walk away should not walk but run to a much easier lifestyle.
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