i mated wispa 14 days ago just would like to know if someone  can scan near guildford/aldershot area,my vet about £75.

omg. that is very expensive, my vet charges 25 but i dont live anywhere near you...I would ask him why he charges that much???

Hello

We use the local Agricultural college, and there costs are between £10 & £15.  Maybe there is somewhere like it in your area. When we couldn't get an appointment at the college we went to a farmer who travels scanning sheep.  He was spot on.
£75 sounds expensive. 
Sorry I can't help you with anyone in your area, I'm in Scotland.
Regards
Joan

Merrist Wood Ag College is close to Guildford, maybe they could do it?

paid £10 to have my bitch scanned back in January your vet is just being greedy !!!

there is a vet in Lavant near Chichester who scans from 21 days and costs £19.50 i have used him bedore and it has been very accurate .... get back to me if you want his number

can they scan at 21 days and be sucessful? my bitch is 23 days from mating i would like to have her scanned 25-30 days, but i,m going on holiday friday and won,t be able to get her scanned  untill her 6 week as i won,t be back i would like to know before i go as she,s coming with me to the seaside and if she is i won,t let her do her usual rock climbing

Just had my cocker scanned once by my vet in Sussex at £60 and then 2 weeks later by a pregnancy testing scanning (also a farmer who scans sheep etc) for £15 and she told me that she was one of the first people to start scanning dogs in 1984 and she's in Ashford, Kent and really easy to find.

Hi Terri

Hope all goes well.  I never scan my dogs but of course I've not taken the big risk that you have :d  I've got absolutely everything crossed for you and your girl.  Carina looks as though she's definitely preggers, she's 4 weeks today and absolutely massive.

Good luck and keep us up to date.
Diane

Hi im in AShford kent , any chance anyone knows of a farmer that does scans rather than a vet ?As its seems ppl think these are more experienced

Hi Terri

Hope you get more this time!  Who did you use?

If it ever helps, I have learnt to do cervical smears to try to pinpoint ovulation (bit late this time!!)

Jo and the Casblaidd Flatcoats

Hi jo
sorry for hyjackijng the thread but where did you learn to do the smears? we have used them over the last couple of years with great sucsess but it envolves me traveling a 60 mile round trip to get them done it would be excellent to learn myself.:)

Hi Kate

First, I twisted my husband's arm to get me a microscope, and my son's to get me some Leishmann's stain.  Actually, Diff-Fix is quicker, but much more expensive.

Then I searched the internet for sites, and found this site probably the most useful

http:/arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/reprod/vc/eval.html

Good clear pictures.

If you e-mail me privately I can give you the technique

Jo and the Casblaidd Flatcoats

Jo,

That link didn't work. Can you check and make sure it's correct?

Yes, I cut and pasted it and it worked for me.     There are some others - I'll try to e-mail you

Jo

Gosh, I know I'm stupid - but how stupid can you get - just seen thet date of Terri's post at the top of this thread.    I did wonder what was going on!!   Silly old me.

Jo and the Casblaidd Flatcoats  

jo you well behind with the date you were there for the mating,

next one will be brie but still cannot find a dog for her yet?????

Jo could I ask you to give me the info also?

I will e-mail you.

Hi jo thankyou for that i will have a look (ive only just manged to find the thread!! hence the delayed reply) :)

Kate,

You can buy the microscope, with the kit and a basic book all as a complete kit, with all the dyes, swabs etc from Brunel. We had a thread going a while ago about it.
http://www.brunelmicroscopes.co.uk/compound.html

I think the whole kit delivered was £160. There is an instruction booklet to tell you how to do the tests etc.

I was quite impressed how it all worked.

Pam 

looking to get my bitch scanned near brighton dont mind traveling to far. any one know were to get her done with out paying a fortune