Pregnant Ewe or False Positive Blood Preg Test?

[frustratedearthmother]

I asked a question about a bovine based pregnancy test that also can be used for sheep.

No - you asked:

Ewe preg tested positive (blood test) 75 days after lambing - pregnant or false positive from hormones present from last pregnancy?

Instead of attacking folks who tried to help you did you ever consider doing a simple Google search? Or must you be hand fed information?

https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=4000afc8-038c-4f87-aaef-fd4f282cd8b0&itemguid=30e9b229-f33c-4ad7-93d7-25eb8180f241&sfb=1&grp=6000&grpc=6800&grpsc=6810&sp=f&utm_content=49637&ccd=IFF003&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17413383735&gbraid=0AAAAADv68NWi5VMiwuHSYeLmnFEUgfrQh&gclid=CjwKCAjw3f_BBhAPEiwAaA3K5A7ZgLkapuQ3hRJKKLJQxwHso53QgSERD6kWAa9kOis7vW79JhmNqBoCBs8QAvD_BwE

https://www.pbsanimalhealth.com/alertys-onfarm-pregnancy-test/p/19865/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22187849926&gbraid=0AAAAAC1UzwkBTyyl8thrN74z0sjxBXPjQ&gclid=CjwKCAjw3f_BBhAPEiwAaA3K5K0PO7MJiPlbTYsRU3qF3-urdAu6NdxxxOxPz_7wgd5Uyv-7qgkGLhoCc8oQAvD_BwE&v=2

Not sure why you want bovine based - but there are p-tests that can be used for goats and sheep.

Urine Pregnancy Test Strip - Sheep & Goats | EMLAB Genetics | United States

P-TEST Strip is a simple and fast test to diagnose and monitor pregnancy from the convenience of your farm. Our urine dip-stick test is 92% accurate and can be used for goats, sheep and deer. Everything is included in an easy-to-use strip to detect the "pregnancy hormone" estrone sulfate...

www.emlabgenetics.com

Hope this helps and that you will live up to your promise to move on.

 

[farmerjan]

@frustratedearthmother and everyone else. That is why I didn't answer... and there is a way to ultrasound ewes, one of my former dairy farmers also raised sheep and sold a lot of lambs for 4-H and FFA show lambs... he ultrasounded his sheep.

75 days post lambing, the pregnancy hormones should not be present... so most likely she was bred back before the ram actually left at 6 weeks.
We have cattle that can come back in heat 30 days post calving... and have had some settle if the bull is still in there. My longhorn cow backed up over 6 months in 4 pregnancies... so was getting bred back before the normal 60 day average of heat detection after calving.

 

[Finnie]

Well I’m late to the party, but I agree with @Mini Horses and @frustratedearthmother that the OP never asked about bovine pregnancy tests in the first post. So when I got to page two and they mentioned bovine for the first time, I thought they just misspoke and meant ovine. It didn’t surprise me when folks started going off on a tangent after that talking about cattle pregnant detection.

The OP should not have taken offense. They came here with a chip on their shoulder against FB and set us up for failure with that non mention of bovine tests, and then blamed us for “not answering the original question”. Buy you guys did answer the original question that was actually asked. And everyone was friendly until the confusion about the word bovine came up. But they had a hair trigger for taking offense, so whatever. We can’t win em all.

 

[Baymule]

I just wonder where the information of 3 births in 14 months came from. OP claimed it was everywhere, but I’ve never seen it. 3 births in 24 months, yes. But even that is pretty intense and ewes have to be in tip top shape. I have ewes that put it all in the milk, no way I would breed like that. The OP said that was not the intention, but held fast to the 3 births in 14 months. Oh well.