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Pregnancy testers

  • 06-04-2011 12:24pm
    #1
    Miller80
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭


    Apologies if there was a thread on these before but was looking at buying pregnancys testers from moreway. Anyone ever used them?
    Supposed to be accurate at 19-23 days... could be handy if they worked. cost €4 each though!


Comments

  • #2
    jeff greene
    Closed Accounts Posts: 733 ✭✭✭jeff greene


    Haven't used them, is not better to watch for repeats or get them scanned at 30 days.


  • #3
    whelan1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,786 ✭✭✭✭whelan1


    ye but costs less to get them scanned at 28 days, which would you trust a piece of paper or seeing the foetus on screen


  • #4
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    I suppose there is a place for them but they only work on cows that are milking, so if you have any maiden heifers you still have to scan!


  • #5
    Miller80
    Registered Users Posts: 121 ✭✭Miller80


    might use a few for cows that i didnt see any sign at 3 weeks. i like to keep reducing the amount of cows to keep an eye on for repeats. yea will scan groups but dont like to scan small numbers at a time


  • #6
    what happen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭what happen


    jeff greene wrote: »
    Haven't used them, is not better to watch for repeats or get them scanned at 30 days.
    was talking to ai man the other day and he does scanning as well.i asked him about scanning at 30 days and he adviced not to scan at 30 days and said men are useing self locking barriers.he said that the cows or heifers dont like the crush and scanning at 30 days could cause stress and harm and said he scans a lot of big dairy herds in the north and all the dairy men stopped scanning at 30 days and now only scan at 42 days.


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  • #7
    st1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 936 ✭✭✭st1979


    Surely if you have the scanner man in the yard your going to do as many as you can. I would do everything as any not bulling are far more important to me than knowing who is in calf In nature your still going to have animals losing a pregnancy at these very early stages would'nt think scanning will increase it alot. Self locking barriers have made the job so quick and less stress on cow


  • #8
    jeff greene
    Closed Accounts Posts: 733 ✭✭✭jeff greene


    what happen wrote: »
    was talking to ai man the other day and he does scanning as well.i asked him about scanning at 30 days and he adviced not to scan at 30 days and said men are useing self locking barriers.he said that the cows or heifers dont like the crush and scanning at 30 days could cause stress and harm and said he scans a lot of big dairy herds in the north and all the dairy men stopped scanning at 30 days and now only scan at 42 days.

    We scan in the parlour, cows are not stressed walking in there unlike doing them in the crush. Agree with st1979 its the unbred cows that need to be seen, rarely scan bred cows at 30 days as its too early to mark them down as Incalf.


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