Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Oklahoma
Posts: 511

do they work just had the guy at vets office tell me they did not work?

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Home of some trashy culls,
it ain't the years it the miles that make me look this way

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Registered: Nov 2005
Location: New Market Va
Posts: 4670

I use Target blood serum testing and it has been very accurite

http://www.targetvet.com/store/inde...p;products_id=2

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Registered: Feb 2012
Location: Rockwell, NC
Posts: 268

Progesterone testing as well as LH is very accurate. With kits you are looking at wells with colors to go off of. Bitches ovulate around a 5 ng/ml. You breed 72 hours post ovulation with frozen semen. The LH surge usually occurs at around 2ng/ml and you would breed 4-6 days post LH surge. If you are breeding naturally or with a fresh AI the test kits are good enough. I would never recommend using them for frozen or chilled semen. They are simply not near accurate enough. If you use a test kit and it indicates a bitch has ovulated...you have no idea when. Then you are just guessing and might waste another 6 months waiting on your bitch to come back in.

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