Cheap Heartbeat Monitors - ever used one on a PG goat????

[Milk n' Honey]

You know those heartbeat doppler monitors that you can buy at Wal-mart for when you are pregnant? They are supposed to work in late pregnancy. Have any of you tried to use one of those on a goat?? I just wondered if it might pick up their little hearbeats?? I didn't have much luck with the stethoscope I bought. It was so junky though, I could hardly hear my own heartbeat on it!!

[HazyDay]

maybe you and your goats are dead! That happened when I was listening to my heart!

[oceanmist]

I have a friend who swears by that monitor thingy... I personally have bad ears and couldn't hear the heart beat.. don't see why not though.

I like doing my own wrap my arms around the doe and tell the babies to WAKE UP version of preg testing.. works best around 4 in the evening where I live.. always felt them moving around in there.

Misty

[Blossomgapfarm]

I don't think the ones you get at WalMart would work as they are not really dopplers (at least the ones I have seen) but one of those real dopplers for professionally monitoring pregnancy might work. I know you can get them on ebay. Sounds like a good idea!

[DQ]

in my experience there is so much background noise on those that they are very difficult to distinguish a heart beat from a baby on me much less a goat, but I am sure that the quality varies. good luck! let us know if it works.

[Milk n' Honey]

I just found a website that will sell or rent out the Dr. office quality dopplers. They are sound only but are not like the cheap ones at Wal-mart. You can hear a human heartbeat on them pretty early so I'd think you'd be able to tell on a goat by 90-120 days anyway. They are $22/month to rent (I don't know about shipping), you can buy a used one for $200 or a new one for $400. The websites is:

www.dynamicdoppler.com

I'd love to try it but I'm not sure any of my does are bred. Maybe I'll try it next spring or something. I need at least one PG doe so I know what to compare the others to.

[Blossomgapfarm]

Look on ebay, they go for much less than that. I got a brand new one a few months ago for about $70.00