BVD Samples

Maidhci

Anyone here know how critical it is to have ear notches tested within 2 days of taking a sample?

Is there a fact sheet or guidlines available on any website?

Thanks.

whelan2

I have left them over a week before posting and all was fine. Have also put sample through the washing machine and it was fine.

Maidhci

whelan2 wrote: »

I have left them over a week before posting and all was fine. Have also put sample through the washing machine and it was fine.

Thanks very much for that, my brother took some samples on Friday, these were not posted and now cannot be posted to the lab until Tuesday next due to Public holiday etc. etc. - this is what caused the panic!

john mayo 10

I know a lad who left a sample on the dash of his van for a few weeks and it was fine

Buford T. Justice XIX

Maidhci wrote: »

Thanks very much for that, my brother took some samples on Friday, these were not posted and now cannot be posted to the lab until Tuesday next due to Public holiday etc. etc. - this is what caused the panic!

Once you take the sample, just keep it in the fridge until you post it. I normally tag them as soon as they hit the ground but only post once a week once they slow down calving.

webels

A cool dry place ideally according to this

https://www.caisley-tags.co.uk/flexoplusgeno-tissue-sampling-faq/

But the sample test seems to be quite robust and delays in testing don't seem to affect the results. Leaving it on a van dash mightn't be the best though.

kollegeknight

A lad I work with leaves them for weeks in the fridge before posting.

The longest I left it was about a week.

50HX

i posted them to a different crowd over the xmas as they were testing and my local lab wasn't and they were "lost in transit" waited for the end of the first working week back after the hols and still no show - ordered replacements online the following week and by the start of the next week got a call to say they had turned up

all in 3 weeks they were somewhere and tested fine, made the deadline to cancel the replacements as well:)

2 weeks in a fridge is no bother to them

Sam Kade

The second year I changed to enfer and rang them after sending off samples to give co op details for payment but of course the man I was talking to never bothered his arse using details to set up the payment. About a week later I got a letter to say they weren't paid for so weren't tested. It was around 2 weeks before they were tested.

alps

Used to test through irish equine centre but they have now ceased. Can anyone recommend an alternative and pricing structure...would appreciate any advise..

whelan2

alps wrote: »

Used to test through irish equine centre but they have now ceased. Can anyone recommend an alternative and pricing structure...would appreciate any advise..

With enfer here. Think it's around €2.60 per sample. Find them ok

wiggy123

use enfer, find them grand..
as for samples-I left them in fridge for a few days-before posting..were ok

Justjens

alps wrote: »

Used to test through irish equine centre but they have now ceased. Can anyone recommend an alternative and pricing structure...would appreciate any advise..

Animal Health Labs in Bandon, they will at least test them when you've run out of credit.

whelan2

Justjens wrote: »

Animal Health Labs in Bandon, they will at least test them when you've run out of credit.

I have it deducted from my creamery account so no worrying about credit

yellow50HX

wiggy123 wrote: »

use enfer, find them grand..
as for samples-I left them in fridge for a few days-before posting..were ok

same as, forgot them 1 time and they wer there for over a week before i posted. no issues