How much does preg blood tests cost?

[red]

What does everyone think of drawing blood for a pregnancy test? How soon can you do it? How much does it normally run? Pros/cons? Can you pull the blood yourself?

thanks in advance!

Red

 

[LazyGLowlines]

It's our primary way of checking pregnancies. It's less invasive, can be done on our schedule, not the vets, and is cheap. It's great for us as we have cows in several pens, so we can move them around with less stress because we don't have a vet waiting.  Plus we can do it ourselves.  It's fairly easy to draw blood from the tail (though some cows are easier than others to bleed).  we can check pregnancies at 30 days, which is very helpful with recips.  BioTracking charges $2.25 per sample and has results back in 3 days.  We like it...Nancy

 

[red]

Gee, thanks Nancy! Didn't realize it was that cheap!  (thumbsup)  (clapping)

Red

 

[Cattledog]

Can you provide a link to this product?  I think that this could save me a bunch of money!

 

[red]

Can you provide a link to this product?  I think that this could save me a bunch of money!

Just looked it up myself. it's http://www.biotracking.com/tailbleed.php

Red

 

[CPL]

Red that blood test is awesome. Last year we sent too much  ;D so now I think they have credited us a couple dollars. Easy and fast. Highly recommend it.

 

[luannv8]

http://www.biopregcheck.com/

 

[TJ]

It's a good test that has a lot of pros.  I guess the biggest "con" is that it wont tell you how far along they are in the pregnancy.  30 days pregnant & 230 days pregnant both test the same.   

 

[Show Heifer]

I don't know what lab some folks in our area used, but they got about 10-15% false readings (mainly false positives).
Ultrasounding can be done accurately at 30 days and cost around $3. But of course, that depends on if you live in an area where that is available!

 

[CPL]

I believe BioTracking has a 98-99% accuracy. If I remember correctly it was a professor or Dr. or something that found the PSPB protein and then made the BioTracking Company. I guess the others are generic spin off's and I'd expect them to have lower accuracy.