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Livestock => Goats => Topic started by: goosepimple on January 04, 2013, 09:51:52 pm
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My wee pygmy lass was served by the billy a few weeks back and we are :fc: she is in kid - when can you scan and see a positive or negative - and where can you get a scanner from? is it something I can borrow from a shepherd? I'm anxious to know as we are going on holiday around about the time she will be due (didn't know about the holiday at the time) and I'll have to be organised.
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I might get sniggered at for this, but google 'pooch test for goats'.
I spent much time peering and my goats lady parts, and according to the pooch test all 3 were in kid. Come kidding time all 3 produced twins :thumbsup:
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Oh no, not in China? If so it'll be birth watch by video link. They probably have better broadband than uk :D
Hope she is in kid, I'll be watching for piccies :innocent:
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I have that sheep scanner do mine when he comes in mid-Jan. Mid-Jan is.when he wants to scan for April lambers.
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I know that people have scanned after AI 35 to 40 days post AI, any later and it gets more difficult. There are only very few (vets normally) goat scanners. However with a pygmy you could try to see if the vets do it, they may do it for dogs?
If she is not returning to season 21 and 42 days after mating you can safely assume she is in kid.
Better get a farm sitter with goat experience organised then....
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Good idea Anke, I'll ask the vet if he can do it with the dog scanner.
Yes it's when we're in China, OH did say he tried to put me off getting her in kid ::) but do I ever listen? think he'd know that by now! We are re-arranging things by a week so hopefully :fc: I don't miss the big event but we will get goat sitting in place a week before we go so she's gets time to feel relaxed - she shouldn't actually kid until the week after we get back, but never work with kids and animals right!
We are going on the billy owners dates of what she saw and she kept her for another few weeks to make sure she didn't come back into season, but I didn't see her in season before she went to the billy in the first place - last year she was LOUD! Maybe the weather got to her.
Will google re the pooch test colliewoman :D Thanks all.
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I had the local sheep scanner do mine last week.
The angoras 90 from the buck going in with them, one GG 40 days since mating, one 24 days.
He didn't think the early one was pregnant although she hasn't come back in season so I think she is. The others he just complained the angoras are too wooly underneath and the GG's their udders get in the way.
First time he's done goats.
Said after 30 days and before 80 was easiest with sheep.
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And pygmy goats might be just tooooo teeny weeny for a long time ;D
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It depends on what you want to know. A friend took his goat to be scanned just before Christmas at 42 days. From the scan they think she is definitely pregnant, but couldn't see how many kids there were. For him, although it is useful to know she is pregnant, it would have been better to know how many she was having, as she had 4 kids 2 years, and did them so well that she nearly killed herself. So it would be good if she wasn't having as big a multiple pregnancy again.
Our old vet used to scan ours if we took them done to the surgery, not sure if it was a dog scanner or a sheep one, but it did the job. Our new vet doesn't have the equipment (nor really the room).
Beth
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This probably wont help you here, but I will be testing my goats for progesterone in milk at 21 days after service in my silent heat does. If there is progesterone they are most likely pregnant. There are commercially available DIY kits for cows which work in goats.
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Ah that's interesting thank you all. I will ask my vet but it's probably a bit early yet but he will probably know when its likely to show. Many thanks.