I think I already covered all this to just Buck Naked Boers but I’ll do it again in case someone else is interested.
First know I’ve only had mine a few weeks but I’ve pretty much played with it nonstop lol
1. Contect. I got it for a few different reasons.......I was debating on this one or the hand held one (can’t think of the name but I can look it up if anyone wants) 1. It seemed to be the one in many FB groups I’m in mentioned. I was very hesitant because I was worried it would take a rocket scientist to figure it out and I figured I could get a lot of help if I ran into a issue (have no fear it’s super easy!) 2. No bad reviews from anyone on those groups. It seemed with the hand held people either loved it or absolutely hated it and said it was a waste of money. And 3. It just seemed like it had more options, like measuring things, saved images, was able to put the animals info to go with the images. I can not say for sure though that the other does not offer that!
2. Ok so on this one once I get it on, I pick which animal I’m doing, dog, cat, pig, horse, cow or sheep. I think the animal pick is just for the gestation calculation but I’m not putting money on that just yet lol you have to shave the area, so the back arm pit and then forward some. I think depending on how far along the doe is on where exactly you scan. I hope CountryLineAcres comes along. But I did 3 month bred and I was right in front of the udder and I did 4+ and I almost got to her ribs before I spotted her kids. A lot of people who scan really early say to go in the back leg arm pit and point it towards the opposite hip to find something. I haven’t got to try short bred just yet. Anyways you put a LOT of ultrasound Gel, oh my gosh does it seem like you need a ton of that stuff! And then start scanning. Again haven’t done short bred but with those you will find the sack show up as just a black circle and depending on how far along there might be a tiny fetus. When I did the 3 month does all I could find were a ton of Cotyledons on one but I couldn’t find a kid threw that whole mess. The other one I saw cotyledons and made out I’m pretty sure 2 kids. I clearly saw ribs and a spine and I’m pretty sure I saw another’s leg.
3 I’m still working on that lol I measured a 50 day does kid whole body and it said she was 59 days along. I attempt a AI on a doe and if she did settle she’s going to be ultrasounded a LOT to try and figure that out. But on this machine you freeze the image and then click on point A and then go to point B and click and then it pops up how long it is and how far along. The issue is though with really far along kids I don’t think your going to be able to get the whole kid in one shot. There’s a app for IPhone that is $.99 and it’s supposed to be able to tell you how far along they are by measuring different things. Honestly I’m sure if one just googled they could find the info.
4. I have not, and honestly I don’t think I myself would be skilled enough to figure out what I’m looking at. It seriously just kinda looks like a bunch of fuzz in there to me. I did ultrasound my sisters dog that is knocked up, her fixed dog, and my unfixed not pregnant dog and you could totally see there was difference between the fixed and unfixed dog but heck if I know what all that was and wasn’t. I think though if one wanted to check for more then just babies you might need a more high tech machine
Anything else? I am having a total blast! I really regret not getting this a long time ago because I was worried I was going to be wasting money and couldn’t figure it out. Honestly it is SO easy and this is coming from someone electronically challenged lol one thing about the machine I have, I can see why people like the hand held idea. It is kinda a pain finding a place to put it where you can see but also where nothing is going to step on it or it fall. I need to figure out some table type thing that secures it and keeps up up. Right now I just have someone stand guard over it and have it on a plastic bin.
but that is very cool on the dog! I didn’t count puppies, we were just trying to see if the dog was pregnant so I just saw the black sack and then something move, not like the giant nipples gave it away or anything lol (is it nipples in dogs? Teats? Whatever!) 
I snuck right in without anyone noticing...
