Rumen Sampling Techniques

Abstract

Thank you very much. I work for Merck, Sharp, and Dome Research Laboratories and the last few years we have been evaluating a new antibiotic to prevent lactic acidosis in feedlot cattle. In doing so we pulled several thousand rumen samples and after finding it very difficult to do we found some methods to make this quite simple-and I thought you might be interested in this technique - you might be interested in using it to monitor what is actually going on in the rumen and see if it has any relationship to any other diseases in the animal.