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<blockquote data-quote="Dsth" data-source="post: 1646568" data-attributes="member: 38038"><p>back about 30 years ago, I had my dairy cows on a monthly herd health program that included palpating preg checking. The vet clinic had 3 or 4 vets. The vet that was doing my herd health called one cow bred way longer than what my AI date showed. I think he called her like 6 months instead of a 60 day pregnancy. He rechecked her after my comments and then called her open. Ended up having one of the other vets come to check her. He had no other info except to preg check the cow and called her bred 60 days and wondered what the problem was. He continued to do my monthly herd health and I was amazed at how accurate he was on days bred. The younger vets now use ultrasound to confirm pregnancy and so far have always been right on cows 35 days to about 3 months. Been ultra sounding for the last 3 years. My vets admit that they do not do enough palpating cows to confirm pregnancy or days bred.</p><p></p><p>I have used blood samples for a few years but seemed like it was not unusual to have a cow not have a calf when due. 2 years ago I drew blood samples on a Friday night and filled paper work out and had box ready to mail out Saturday morning. Saturday morning one of the cows was in standing heat but I sent her blood sample anyway since everything was ready to ship. She came back as pregnant. She had a calf around the due date of the second bred date. I still use blood samples to do early preg checks on later bred cows when I have less than 5 cows to do, but have the vet preg check them later when I have a larger group to do. I know the blood test claims to be 95 - 99% accurate but that does not seem to be true for me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dsth, post: 1646568, member: 38038"] back about 30 years ago, I had my dairy cows on a monthly herd health program that included palpating preg checking. The vet clinic had 3 or 4 vets. The vet that was doing my herd health called one cow bred way longer than what my AI date showed. I think he called her like 6 months instead of a 60 day pregnancy. He rechecked her after my comments and then called her open. Ended up having one of the other vets come to check her. He had no other info except to preg check the cow and called her bred 60 days and wondered what the problem was. He continued to do my monthly herd health and I was amazed at how accurate he was on days bred. The younger vets now use ultrasound to confirm pregnancy and so far have always been right on cows 35 days to about 3 months. Been ultra sounding for the last 3 years. My vets admit that they do not do enough palpating cows to confirm pregnancy or days bred. I have used blood samples for a few years but seemed like it was not unusual to have a cow not have a calf when due. 2 years ago I drew blood samples on a Friday night and filled paper work out and had box ready to mail out Saturday morning. Saturday morning one of the cows was in standing heat but I sent her blood sample anyway since everything was ready to ship. She came back as pregnant. She had a calf around the due date of the second bred date. I still use blood samples to do early preg checks on later bred cows when I have less than 5 cows to do, but have the vet preg check them later when I have a larger group to do. I know the blood test claims to be 95 - 99% accurate but that does not seem to be true for me. [/QUOTE]
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