In a message dated 12/31/2005 4:36:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, Pinehillgsds writes: > BTW, breeding back to back days seems a little different since healthy > sperm can live quite a while. Not second guessing, but what do others do? > (I > usually skip a day, sometimes 2, which I realize isn't feasible when long > commutes are involved.) well what happened was i had a progesterone level of 4.5 on Saturday no results til Sunday, drove down to VA, on Sunday, bred her Monday and then something came up where i thought i was going to have to leave Tuesday so we didnt want to risk wasting the trip and just leave with one breeding on Monday.... but then the results came in and vet suggested breeding Tuesday since i might leave... story short, plans changed was able to stay my situation at home was ok... and the progesterone level we got suggested do a breeding Wed so we would have NORMALLY done Mon and Wed but did Tues just in case. Not worth it for me to have taken the chance and done one breeding with all the time and money invested etc... so we decided better to be safe than sorry.. just have to "guess" which is her due date which SUX lol thanks! Dawnmarie http://hometown.aol.com/wymargsd/intro.html http://hometown.aol.com/designsdawnmarie/home.html ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2005. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://www.showgsd.org ============================================================================