No spoilers dang it!! LOL

Thanks all for the info. Very informative.

By far my fav show on tv. Some of the best characters ever... especially Rip and John (Costner’s role). ;)

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Posted by gerald65

Moss Bluff, LA

Member since Jul 2020

710 posts

Posted on 1/11/21 at 8:56 pm to highcotton2

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My grandfather had one of these that they would stick in the cow right behind the last rib I believe.

This is what I was told by my grandfather who was a farmer.

I once saw a grand champion bull that was bloated. He had gotten into a field with lots of clover. To treat him, they put him in the barn with a rubber pipe put in is mouth like a horse bridle. This help him get rid of the gas. I guess the bloat was not too bad and they did not want to "stick" this bull.

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Posted by Sparetime

Lookin down at LA

Member since Sep 2014

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Posted on 1/11/21 at 9:47 pm to AUTimbo

I had several friends call me the night of this episode, told them it was hollywood and clover is good for them... in moderation. I would be more concerned in reality if it was a jumbo jet full of Alfafa and clover, not a few bales dropped on 30 head from a Cessna.

Western dryland cattle are living on half the forage volume because that's all they can find daily, thus their stomachs are conditioned to half the size. We bought a load of heifers from deep west texas years ago and lost a third of them to bloat. Had to keep them in the bare catch pen and let them out for half a day on pasture. Then start giving them a full day from time to time. Most of them conditioned their stomachs to be healthy, some of them actually got poor because they only ate enough to sustain them out west.

Now our cows will eat the clover and keep it beat back so it's never enough to hurt them from year to year. We rotate them on rye grass to keep them full on water weight in late spring when clover is full head.

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