Pregnant Ewe or False Positive Blood Preg Test?

[Mini Horses]

You say "birth to birth" meaning the first 5 mo of gestation wasn't included in that "14 mos". Think about that....3 pregnancies X5 months is 15 months. Breeding that often is extremely hard on your ewes.

But this is just my knowledge for my animals and nothing more. I raise goats, same time frame and know the effects of pregnancy & nursing on the does. We each decide our herd comforts.

 

[horsehead520]

You say "birth to birth" meaning the first 5 mo of gestation wasn't included in that "14 mos". Think about that....3 pregnancies X5 months is 15 months. Breeding that often is extremely hard on your ewes.

Yes. Every source I've found, states it in that way. Again, I'll repeat myself to say - this is not and was not my goal. My actual post was about if anyone had information on bovine pregnancy tests. Apparently, no one has that info. But lots of clarifications on things that are not actually the information I was looking for

But this is just my knowledge for my animals and nothing more. I raise goats, same time frame and know the effects of pregnancy & nursing on the does. We each decide our herd comforts.

 

[Mini Horses]

Hmmm. I don't raise cattle anymore. But believe the "arm in" is still most used check method. Not fun.

 

[Baymule]

There is a bovine ultra sound test that can be done.

 

[horsehead520]

Hmmm. I don't raise cattle anymore. But believe the "arm in" is still most used check method. Not fun

 

[horsehead520]

So again, to clarify. These are SHEEP. I am not ultrasounding them. I asked a question about a bovine based pregnancy test that also can be used for sheep. If you do not have something related to my original question, thanks for your two cents, but you've missed the point.

 

[Baymule]

Since we are obviously missing the point, just call your vet.

When you ask for help, you get a lot of different responses. You sort through them and choose what applies to your situation. You are rude, call your vet.

 

[horsehead520]

Since we are obviously missing the point, just call your vet.

When you ask for help, you get a lot of different responses. You sort through them and choose what applies to your situation. You are rude, call your vet.

I asked if anyone had specific information. I was polite for the initial responses where I was given information and unsolicited advice. But it gets old when I get more responses about how I should breed, because I posted an update, than the number of responses I got to the original post. Please feel free to explain how your contribution of mentioning that "bovine ultrasounds can be done" has any relevance whatsoever to how long hormones stay in a ewe's system after she lambs

You specifically went from "we aren't facebook!" to doing the exact thing that would've happened on a Facebook post. And frankly, I will not be updating this post or posting anything in the future, because I was looking for a forum with educated people who can understand when sharing random information isn't necessary. This site clearly isn't the correct place. Annoying that it's impossible to find helpful information without people coming out of the woodwork to make it not worth it

 

[Mini Horses]

I asked a question about a bovine based pregnancy test that also can be used for sheep. If you do not have something related to my original question, thanks for your two cents, but you've missed

Really?? I've re read this post & still missed that question in your sections. Maybe that's why we "missed the point". we didn't read correctly

 

[horsehead520]

Here's the original post. First line say blood test and asks if it could be a false positive

TL: DR - Ewe preg tested positive (blood test) 75 days after lambing - pregnant or false positive from hormones present from last pregnancy? (Most sources say 60 days post-lambing is the point where those leave the ewe unless she's bred back already)

I have Katahdin ewes. Got them in September. Also bought a Katahdin ram. Two older ewes (now 5) and one yearling. Five year old ewes lambed Feb 28th, both triplets. One ewe struggled with lambing and being pregnant. Nothing crazy, just didn't seem like she was having a good time, especially compared to the other ewe of the same age. Wasn't planning to rebreed her. Ram was supposed to be picked up when lambs were born. Due to scheduling, he didn't get picked up until lambs were about four and a half weeks old. I don't have a set up to keep ram separate from ewes. Ram stayed in with ewes and babies. Most online sources say Katahdins can lamb three times in 14 months - breeding when lambs are two months old. I assumed I was good to go, but did a preg test just in case, before listing this ewe for sale. She preg checked positive on two blood tests. Blood test says must be at least 28 days into pregnancy - ram left six weeks ago, so that checks out. But I've found exactly one article about PAG hormones leaving the bloodstream post-lambing, and that said you can get false positives up to 60 days post lambing. She's at 75 days post lambing, when I did the blood test.
I realize this is poor management, I had a better plan set up and then that fell apart for various reasons. It'll be taken into consideration in the future. I'm just wondering if she's actually 6-10 weeks pregnant, or if I should wait a month and retest her to see if it's residual hormones.