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The development of the use of Pluronics and their later derivatives for Bloat Control and the subsequent application of DRINKING WATER TREATMENT as a means of preventing common metabolic diseases is due to Dr. Doug Phillips.

Dr Phillips, a physicist by training, founded the Biophysics Group at Ruakura and led the Group for over 30 years.

This investigation and development of control methods for Bloat led to the introduction of the Pluronics for Bloat in the late 1950's. Subsequently drinking water studies carried on over many years on the No. 1 Dairy Farm at Ruakura, led to the development of successful WATER TREATMENT METHODS and the invention of the FLOATING TROUGH DISPENSER. This was later licensed to PETA ENTERPRISES LTD. who have been developing and manufacturing dispensers since 1974, supplying local and overseas markets.

This technique, although strongly opposed in the early years by "conventional experts", has finally been accepted as the preferred method of treatment for a variety of animal diseases including BLOAT, MAGNESIUM AND OTHER MINERAL DEFICIENCIES as well as FACIAL ECZEMA.

THE PETA TROUGH DISPENSER SYSTEM

To administer prophylactic materials to farm animals for the control of metabolic diseases, is no simple matter.

The active material, be it Bloat Control remedy or Mineral Salt, must be administered in a carefully controlled dose rate according to body-size. Too little or too much can be catastrophic — particularly in the case of Bloat remedies or a toxic salt.

It might seem, at first glance, that DIRECT DRENCHING must be the most effective way! NOT SO!! Dose rate is generally fixed at a level suited to the largest animals, and while treatment can be regular, it is costly and very time consuming. Consequently it is often started TOO LATE and STOPPED TOO SOON - with devastating effects.

With Bloat it is often difficult to discover whether there is a problem, and a stoppage of treatment can often lead to stock deaths.

The concentrated solutions used in drenching are often caustic and can lead to severe damage to an animal's throat with loss in production. IN-LINE WATER TREATMENT might also seem to be an easy answer.

Again — NOT SO!! Such a system, unless designed using the PETA principle, will treat the water on a PER LITRE BASIS, so that the PER ANIMAL dose rate swings violently from Low to High as the daily water intake changes with daily temperature.

PETA TROUGH DISPENSERS