Dogs and seasons HELP!

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So hoping for some advice from experienced dog breeders .....

We have a lab girl who has always cycled regularly and predicatably. Last winter, we planned to bred from her - season due end of January. She started to show mid December which was a surprise. Spoke to specialist fertility vets who said they'd pg test her day 7. We took her in on day 6. And she'd already ovulated. Gutted doesn't even begin to cover our emotions.

So this summer, she didn't show a visible season. Silent season??

We are hoping to try again this winter.
Both our usual vets and the specialist vets just shrugged at last years results and said it was an anomaly.

How should we go about ensuring it doesn't happen again and we miss it? She was a month early..... should we be pg testing early? I don't know what else to suggest.
 
How many is she ? Presumably she’s had enough seasons to establish a pattern . I bred way before pg tests were a thing , if we didn’t have a male to give us clues we went on when the female flagged a tail when we ran a hand over her rump , and it usually worked , 2 matings 48 hours apart were the norm then which probably helped . I’d just be getting a test a couple of days earlier , it’s possible you missed the first few days as her season was early
 
spacefaer said:
So hoping for some advice from experienced dog breeders .....

We have a lab girl who has always cycled regularly and predicatably. Last winter, we planned to bred from her - season due end of January. She started to show mid December which was a surprise. Spoke to specialist fertility vets who said they'd pg test her day 7. We took her in on day 6. And she'd already ovulated. Gutted doesn't even begin to cover our emotions.

So this summer, she didn't show a visible season. Silent season??

We are hoping to try again this winter.
Both our usual vets and the specialist vets just shrugged at last years results and said it was an anomaly.

How should we go about ensuring it doesn't happen again and we miss it? She was a month early..... should we be pg testing early? I don't know what else to suggest.
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Test on day 4/5 and be guided by results for further testing

Previous seasons are irrelevant, bitches do not have repeatable ovulation timings unfortunately.
 
spacefaer said:
@MurphysMinder we worked from the first day of showing colour?

@druid we tested day 6 as recommended by the specialist vets and she was complete over. Measured 104
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Thats why I said day 4 or 5, we expect doubling of progesterone every 24h from about so over the top on day 6 is likely breed able on day 4/5. This is my area of specialty also :)

Also, there are 2 sets of units the tests are in ng/ml and nmol/ml, a 104 is using the latter. Just something to watch for as ng/ml would be more commonly used. We will breed live cover or side by side AI from about 30-75nmol/ml Your girl was likely a 25 on day 4 and 50 on day 5.
 
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