Breed with confidence.
Now test with just one drop of plasma.
Learn about the mare and her cycle with an economical, easy-to-use stall-side progesterone test.
Employ our economical and easy to use Quick P4 Equine Progesterone™ test kit to determine where the mare is in her progesterone cycle. Our Equine Cube Reader generates a numerical result for progesterone in minutes. In the event of an unsuccessful breeding, the customer can continue to monitor progesterone levels.
Benefits.
Our Quick P4 progesterone kit monitors levels during the equine reproductive cycle:
- Our Equine Cube Reader can be used to get numerical test progesterone results in just 10 minutes.
- Easy to use, on-site testing.
- Our test kits are stable at room temperature and have a one year shelf life.
Why Progesterone?
Progesterone levels are key to determining many aspects of a mare’s reproductive cycle such as what stage the mare is in the cycle, pregnancy diagnosis, embryo viability, and more. Because of the time required and difficulty in getting accurate progesterone results from a laboratory, equine practitioners typically resort to extensive progesterone supplementation rather than planning actions based on knowledge of actual progesterone levels present.
- Numerical progesterone results for fresh equine plasma or whole blood.
- Convenient, on-site results
Interpretation and accuracy with the Cube Reader.
Precision and Reliability of the Cube Reader in Progesterone Testing
The optical electronic sensor of the Cube reader takes multiple high resolution scans of test and control line intensities to get accurate results. Using the test and control line intensities and the mathematical information (standard curve) on the calibration card, the Cube Reader calculates and displays the Progesterone concentration (ng/mL).
- The % CV of different readings on the same cube is 1-3 %
- The % CV between different cubes is < 3 %.
- The % CV with same sample on different cassettes is < 3 %
The progesterone concentration of 72 mare samples were compared using Equine Quick P4(LF) and Cornell (RIA) numerical results. As you can see from the results, the Equine Quick P4 identifies the free progesterone on the serum samples correctly. In comparison, the Lab Result of Horse ID Martha was completely wrong. Martha was 244 days pregnant the lab concentration was <0.06 ng/mL progesterone and the Equine quick P4 concentration was 3.7ng/mL. Martha was not on any supplement and she maintained the pregnancy and had a healthy foal.
Link to the entire Studies 72 mare samples table
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