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Secondary bloat or free gas bloat results from any condition that causes oesophageal obstruction or interferes with eructation. It usually affects a single animal in a group and generally has a more sporadic occurance.   

Secondary bloat or free gas bloat results from any condition that causes oesophageal obstruction or interferes with eructation. It usually affects a single animal in a group and generally has a more sporadic occurance.   

It may be '''acute''' in the case of sudden oesophageal obstruction, caused by a foreign body such as a potatoe or turnip, or '''chronic''' resulting from partial oesophageal obstruction,  compression, or from interference with the normal eructation mechanism.

It may be '''acute''' in the case of sudden oesophageal obstruction, caused by a foreign body such as a potatoe or turnip, or '''chronic''' resulting from partial oesophageal obstruction,  compression, or from interference with normal eructation.

Causes of secondary bloat:

Causes of secondary bloat:

*Excessive cereal ingestion   

*Excessive cereal ingestion   

*Rumenal atony

*Rumenal atony

*Inability to eructate due to Tentanus or Milk fever

*Inability to eructate due to '''Tentanus''' or '''Milk fever'''

*Chronic inflammatory or adhesive disease of the [[The Reticulum - Anatomy & Physiology|reticulum]]

*Chronic inflammatory or adhesive disease of the [[The Reticulum - Anatomy & Physiology|reticulum]]