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Faunsdale, AL | If you want more accurate dates, adjust your date of preg check. Early in pregnancy, it is easy for a skilled palpator to get within a couple days, well within the normal variation in gestation lengths, but after 3 months, it becomes more of an educated guess depending on what "landmarks" you can access on each cow and how much time you spend.
Maybe you could check 2 months after your latest desired breeding date. That would give you a pretty solid pregnant status on all the on-time cows (normal pregnancy losses decrease markedly by 60 days), and you would get a " bred, but late" on a few of the rest. At that point, anything too early to diagnose would be around 3 weeks behind the last of the on-time cows. | |
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How confident are you with your palper?
