Consistency is an ideal for most herds. 

But how to achieve this ideal while keeping inbreeding coefficients within a "safe" level?

This post will review the strategies that I've used and a new one that I plan to use in the coming years.

Index of topics:

December 22: Fails
December 28: More fails
January 2: I found the bladder! (SMH)
January 7: Steps I learned from an ADGA Presentation
January 10: Learning from mistakes
​January 11: Some scans tracking the progression of pregnancies
January 16: Early pregnancy detection
January 25: More on early pregnancies

As predicted, after some epic bumbling around, I am feeling competent and confident in my abilities to detect pregnancies using my VIS Scan Pad. Yay me! (link to buy your own!)

​It helps that I know my learning process, otherwise this would have been really discouraging.

Finally, I'm not going to sweat counting fetuses or looking for specific body parts. I've got way too much on my plate to worry about that level of detail. For more information on those topics, check out the FB Dairy Goat Ultrasound group.