Repro testing help please!

RE: Repro testing help please!

Dinu Catilina — Sat, 09 Jun 2018 11:48:52 GMT

[quote user="Ashlea"]would you recommend testing for both male and female or just stud dog? [/quote]

Just the stud dog if the female never travelled.

[quote user="Neil Wheadon"]Laboklin seem to test for an awful lot of breeding issues[/quote]

As with everything else it matters what they are testing for. I generally recommend AHT as with Laboklin I noticed inconsistencies. For example they sell a PKD test for Miniature Bull Terriers but the disease has never been diagnosed in this breed. They also sell a PKD test for Bull Terriers but there are no positive cases found yet. But they keep selling them and breeders keep paying for irrelevant tests.

RE: Repro testing help please!

Ashlea — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 13:19:44 GMT

Thanks all, Laboklin looks like it might have the type of testing she's interested in.

[quote user="Dinu Catilina"]What I would probably encourage to do is a Leishmania test, I just had a 3 year old dog testing positive even though he was asymptomatic and in UK for over 2 years now. We were meant to send his semen to Australia this is how we found out. Can be transmitted through semen. [/quote] - would you recommend testing for both male and female or just stud dog? I'm not sure whether her females have travelled yet.

RE: Repro testing help please!

Dinu Catilina — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 23:37:24 GMT

[quote user="Ashlea"]She's done all the breed-specific stuff but has been asking about Herpesvirus, Brucella and Transmissible Venereal Tumours.[/quote]

Most breedings dogs and bitches will have Herpes, If I remember well there was a study done in Sweden about 80% of dogs were positive. Just vaccinate.

Brucella, no point for a UK dog but may occur in European dogs. The test makes sense only if she uses frozen semen, she can test at the time of collection.

TVD, don't worry about them, affected dogs have some obvious cauliflowery tumour on their penis and prepuce, can't miss it. But they are common in stray dogs in East Europe, I saw loads in Romania.

What I would probably encourage to do is a Leishmania test, I just had a 3 year old dog testing positive even though he was asymptomatic and in UK for over 2 years now. We were meant to send his semen to Australia this is how we found out. Can be transmitted through semen.

RE: Repro testing help please!

Rob Loxley — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:01:07 GMT

[quote user="Ashlea"]For Brucella testing it's probably mostly the stud to test but would it be worthwhile testing the bitch(es) too, and if so which lab as I can't find it listed on Idexx? [/quote]

Not sure the answer to the first part, but when we've tested for Brucella canis it's been for export and done by the VLA lab

RE: Repro testing help please!

Neil Wheadon — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 14:43:08 GMT

Laboklin seem to test for an awful lot of breeding issues

I've never used them , but this came up this morning when I had to discuss testing with a Cocker Spanial breeder

http://www.laboklin.co.uk/laboklin/

Neil