Stomach Tube (For Cattle)

Description
Stomach Tubes
We offer a variety of high-quality products to meet your bovine stomach tube and feeding tube needs. Supplied in sizes suitable for cattle (calves), the tubes were made with special material for easy passage and optimal flexibility.

A stomach tube is a flexible piece of plastic tubing with a bulbous-shaped end designed to be easily inserted into the esophagus, but not into the lungs. It is usually attached to a plastic container holding the liquid feed.
There are times you must get fluid into a calf, such as a newborn that needs colostrum or a sick calf that needs fluid and medications orally. If a newborn is unable to nurse, the quickest, safest way to get colostrum into him is by tube.
For calves, a flexible plastic or nylon tube about four feet long is adequate. It should be about a quarter-inch in diameter.
Stomach tubes are handy for the administration of fluids or liquid medications, and for treating bloated animals.
They are also useful if a calf has been eating dirt and plugged up.