Radiography 🩻 is an excellent tool to reveal pregnancy. Generally, calcification of fetal bone begins as early as 38-40days post-breeding therefore pregnancy might not be detectable by radiograph before that.
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🆗Radiograph provides information such as:
–Number of litters
–Litter size
–Any conformational abnormality that will prevent the queen having a natural birth.
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❎However it doesn’t provide information such as:
–Estimated gestation age
— Viability of the foetus (calcified foetus doesn’t mean the foetus is alive)
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Luckily we have different tools such as ultrasound to overcome these limitations.
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In this case, there are 2 foetus 🚼🚼 on the X-ray and these are the pictures of them with the mother 😻