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Imogen

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003 - 10:08 am:

Does anyone have any names/prices for the kits? They seem to be a bit unheard-of in Ireland or at least my bit of Ireland. My mare is due 25th April, has been bagging up at night for about 10 days and stayed bagged up during the day yesterday. I know, I should have thought about getting a kit earlier... I tried lab suppliers asking about standard water hardness kits but they sell them in batches of 100 and there are about 100 different combinations of sensitivity...

All the best

Imogen
Member:
Jdunton

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003 - 12:17 pm:

The website for Predict-a-foal is www.ahcpi.com/product2.htm. I have used it 3 times and twice it was very accurate. The third time I used it was on a mare that just foaled 2 weeks ago. She was showing signs that she was getting near to foaling, so I tested her, and it showed that she was going to foal within the next 12 hours. Well, she didnt foal until 3 days later. The third morning I got up to find that she was very waxed up and acting nervous. So then I knew that she was ready. And she had it 3 hours later. So I kind of lost confidence in the test. But maybe I did something wrong. Each time my mares have foaled it has been in the morning or the evening. I have been lucky not to have to be up during the middle of the night.

Good Luck with the testing

Joy
Member:
Jdunton

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 16, 2003 - 12:21 pm:

I just noticed that the price may not be on the website, but it cost me about $30.00 as best I can remember, and you can test quite a few mares with it. I split the cost with my daughter-in-law and we both used it on 3 mares and there were enough left for probably a couple more mares. Depends on how many times you perform the test. You can order it out of quite a few mail order catalogs. If you can't find it I can look and see which one we ordered it from.
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DrO

Posted on Thursday, Apr 17, 2003 - 5:56 am:

There is some information in the article associated with this forum on the kits and also gives you an idea of the sensitivity range you would want in a test kit Imogen. As Joy has found these tests are not 100% and the article explains some of the reasons.
DrO
Member:
Imogen

Posted on Thursday, Apr 17, 2003 - 11:06 am:

Thanks DrO - I read the article on levels, I just got a very confused lady at the lab supplier place and given her confusion and the fact they don't sell small quantities I kind of gave up at that point.

I've established my vet doesn't believe they are accurate enough as they don't stock them and don't know where you can get them...

I think I was just trying to bolster my lack of experience with a bit of technology. I took a little liquid from one udder last night and it's still clear - I think she has another week to go anyway given her covering date.

I decided to send her away to foal but I'm trying to economise on the number of days keep I have to pay for her to be at the foaling place. My farrier who breeds 6-10 valuable mares a year says he usually manages to get them there within 24-48 hours and brings them back 48 hours after foaling. He's coming tomorrow to take her shoes off so I plan to take advantage of his greater experience and get him to look at her.

All the best

Imogen
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