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Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - Splitting 4s/5s

Do you ever have to spit between 4 and 5 month fetuses for your clients? It can be a bit of a challenge. Fetal aging under 4 months can be done with considerably more accuracy than over 4 months. Some veterinarians will age under 120 days in 5 or 10 day increments and over 4 months with only a month and/or 2-month age.

For example, a pregnancy may be recorded as 100 days for a late bred cow and an earlier bred cow may be recorded as a 5/6 meaning that it is somewhere around 5 or 6 months pregnant. Knowing the stage of pregnancy provides your clients with the data they need to manage their herds. Click HERE to learn more!

Tips, Tricks, and Techniques- Scanning Deep Bodied, 2nd Trimester Cows

Scanning deep bodied or longer bred cows can be a bit of a challenge. Check out this video with practical tips to help you navigate that tricky stage. For more tips check out our youtube or facebook pages.

Are You Ready For Christmas Puppies?

Pregnancy diagnosis in dogs tends to be a simple task with an ultrasound. Starting at approximately 28 days, fetuses can be easily detected with transabdominal ultrasound. For large dogs, any probe can be used, however a higher frequency probe is preferred. In small dogs, any probe with a frequency exceeding 5-6 MHz will be adequate.

Position the probe at the brim of the pelvis and begin by scanning forward. The vesicle and fetal structures of each pup will be easily distinguished after 28 days, and the uterine horns can be followed along the dorsal and dorsolateral abdominal walls in lateral or dorsal recumbency. Typically, the pups will be in fairly close proximity, and counting will be easy in mid-gestation. In late gestation, assessment of fetal structures and fetal heart rate will be easier, but counting may be more difficult.

Tips, Tricks, and Techniques- How to Set Up for a Successful PregChecking Season!

Pregnancy testing beef cows incorporates many skills, planning and proper facilities. Any deficiencies in any of these areas may result in disappointing results, wasted time and possible injuries to people and cattle. At ReproScan Technologies, we would like to help you plan for success. Here are a few pointers that we would like to share. For more details and tips on how to safely and successfully ultrasound pregnancy test beef cows, contact your ReproScan representative or the ReproScan office.

Equipment Care- Are You Taking Care of Your Batteries?

Receiving the new monitor
When you receive your new monitor, it will not be fully charged. Please make sure to turn on the hard power switch on the back of the monitor, then plug it in using the included power supply. When the light on the front panel turns blue, your monitor is fully charged and ready to use.

Battery level indicator
Your monitor comes with the battery level indicator turned on. When the monitor is on, you should see a number in the upper right-hand corner. This is the percentage of monitor battery life you have left.

BoviScan Blitz is Back!

During the month of October, YOU can purchase a brand-new BoviScan package for 10% off! By taking advantage of the BoviScan Blitz, you can build your own ultrasound package, with packages starting at $7500. But what options come with these new packages?

• -BoviScan Curve: BoviScan Curve is a durable, lightweight, and portable, convex probe designed for cattle ultrasound. It is designed to be paired with the ReproArm for rapid pregnancy diagnosis and the alleviation of the shoulder and arm strain.

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Who's In Charge at the Chute?

Pregnancy testing cattle requires teamwork and a variety of skills. Working cattle in good facilities with skilled cattle handlers, trained equipment operators and modern ultrasound technology is a rewarding way to contribute to the nation’s food supply.

Unfortunately, there are still some cattle outfits with inadequate facilities and poorly trained personnel. Veterinarians are often asked to pregnancy test cattle in facilities where accidents and equipment damage may occur. This is unfortunate and unacceptable in our modern world where beef consumers want to know that cattle are being handled humanely and staff work safely and are treated fairly.

Reflections on Extension Arm Ultrasound

Having an ultrasound has benefited both of my practices! In the original of the two locations it has given us the opportunity to expand our diagnostic options in the small animal side and enhance our large animal pregnancy examination techniques. We use our unit on a wide array of issues from viewing the urogenital tract and diagnosing pregnancies in small animals, noting fetal counts in small ruminants, pregnancy diagnosis in horses and cows and looking at the internal structures of masses, abscesses and more. Having ultrasound capabilities gives us flexibility and credibility with our clients and patients.

Why pregnancy test beef herds? Because you need to know!

Why pregnancy test beef cows? Because you need to know… By Dr. Andrew Bronson

Back in the 80s as a young veterinarian, I was confronted several times by successful ranchers that said that pregnancy testing mature beef cows did not pay. These comments went against everything that I had been taught in veterinary school. And of course, I wanted their pregnancy testing business. I spent countless hours doing partial budgets on keeping open cows over the winter and marketing them in the spring after calving season ended. I have to admit that there was a positive margin for keeping that open cow around on many of these low input ranches. But, there was usually a better margin if the open cows and late calving cows were detected earlier and replaced with pregnant cows or heifers. This allowed the ranch to be fully stocked for winter with pregnant cows and pregnant heifers. Why couldn’t I get these ranchers to see my point of view? I was up against tradition, inadequate facilities, and peer pressure. Until one day…

What Type of Ultrasound is Right For Me?

Which ultrasound is right for me? Here at ReproScan, this is one of the most common questions we hear.

Well, the first questions I ask are: What are you doing? How often are you performing that exam? What other exams do you hope to perform?

We will work with you to choose the best probe type for what you are doing. There is not a one size fits all answer, which is why we love talking with you to help you choose the best ultrasound package for YOU. The right ultrasound probe depends on what you are wanting to ultrasound. Each probe can be used for different types of exams, so it greatly depends on what exams you will be performing and their regularity. Read on to learn a bit more of the basics of our most common probes.