preg testing ?

ann fr · #1 07/12/08, 07:46 PM

I thought I read once that it was posable to test for pregnacy with milk instead of blood. Is this ture ? Has anyone tried this?
I only ask because I need to have my girls tested. My soon to be sold buck has escaped 3 times in the past month,he's in full stinky rutt and I think he might have rebred a few of my does that kidded in May. I need to know for sure so I can decide what to do with these doe's.
Of course I can get a vet to draw blood if I need to. Now where to send? I'm in Ontario,Canada.

Thanks Ann.

Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians · #2 07/13/08, 12:27 PM

Can you use biotracking.com? You need to learn to draw blood. It is so simple. Shave the neck over the jugular for your first one. Press your finger hard into the jugular so it buldges above your finger. Insert a needle and pull out 3cc of blood. Press hard on the hole you made! Viola. You do not have to use a needle transfer set up for this or anything, which I can't use with one hand anyway. For your first time if you can get someone to hold the does head straight up in the air that helps immensley. Make sure your needle and syringe are facing the same directions as the vein is. You do not need a vet to pull blood. Vicki

ann fr · #3 07/13/08, 01:00 PM

Thanks Vicki But I would have to have a vet come. Its just me and my son handling our goats he's 8 ,and honestly I have not completly gotton over my fear of needles. I can give shots no prob but the blood and needle combo might make me pass out. Don't get me wrong I'm no chicken but something about needles and blood I could never handle. Even when I have blood work done I have to turn my head.

Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians · #4 07/13/08, 01:11 PM

Ann, I ran a dairy milking 36 does year round with a 10 year old and a 6 year old (she really milked about 4 goats to my older daughter and me milking the rest). 8 is the perfect age to teach to pull blood, fecal etc... In fact I do think that the website with the bloodteaching photos on it the young gal on there is 8 or 10. Vicki

ann fr · #5 07/13/08, 01:18 PM

It won't hurt to try. I guess the milk was out of the question.

Vicki McGaugh TX Nubians · #6 07/13/08, 01:41 PM

They do this on mares. I do know a gal who tried the pregnancy kit for horses, using ones she knew were not pregnant as a control, then any reaction at all she deemed them pregnant. It was considerably more money and time than the biotracking costs even with shipping. Vicki