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Foal Chek by Centaur Animal Health
Protect your foal today by making sure your foal has the antibodies for maximum health with Foal Chek®
About Centaur Animal Health
Since it was founded in 1986, Centaur Animal Health business focus has been concentrated in adaptations of proven new technology -- with special emphasis in biotechnology -- converting successes from the human healthcare market to help similar problems in the animal health markets.

Centaur’s first products were concentrated in the equine market, and focused on diagnostic technologies that were representative of ‘breakthrough innovations’. One such product is the Equine Infectious Anemia (EIA) diagnostic that was adapted from the human AIDS test and for which a patent was granted in 1995.

Centaur, Animal Health and United Agriculture and Veterinary Products, Inc. (Unavet) were two separate Kansas City based animal health businesses that have been operational since the mid 1980’s. Both companies had been engaged in sales activity in separate but complimentary segments of the animal health market. The merging of the two existing companies in 2001 provided efficiencies and growth opportunities available that would not have been available to either company individually.

Why Do I Need Foalchek®?
In equine species, young are born without significant amounts of circulating protective antibody. Normally, maternal antibodies are transmitted to the foal in the colostrum ingested during the first 24 hours after birth. These maternal antibodies provide protection against a variety of pathogens common to the animals’ environment until the foal matures sufficiently to produce its own immunoglobulins. FoalChek® offers the valuable protection you need!

Does My Foal Really Need Foalchek®?
It has been reported that 10-12 percent of foals fail to acquire even partially protective antibody levels from their dam’s colostrum, and an additional 12% acquire only partially protective levels. These foals are prone to infection which may result in serious illness or death. The survival rate of these animals, if diagnosed, may be improved by various treatments, particularly serum transfusions.

What IS Foalchek® ?
Foalchek is a highly sensitive latex agglutination test for IgG in foals. The test can be conducted on either blood or serum with results obtainable within minutes of collecting a blood sample. Immunoglobulin levels should be determined after allowing time for absorption.

When Should My Foal Have a Foalchek® Test?
Although sampling between two and three days of age is optimal, twelve to fifteen hours after the first nursing is usually adequate, and allows time for oral supplementation of commercially available products. After 24 hours of age, intravenous administration of serum would be required. Experts have suggested the following immunoglobulin levels as meaningful indicators of passive transfer: <200mg/dl = failure of passive transfer; 200mg-400mg/dl = partial failure of passive transfer; >400 mg/dl = adequate transfer. Current trends indicate a number of veterinarians prefer to measure an IgG level >800 mg/dl. Any of these IgG levels can be measured with the Foalchek® test kit.

Order FoalChek® Today!
You have given top care to your mare and carefully selected just the right stallion. Every effort has been made to ensure the health and well being of this foal. Don't let a simple, easy test that can alert you to a potentially devastating health problem. Make sure you have the easy Foalchek test for your foal today-- and sleep with peace of mind tomorrow!

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Overland Park, Kansas 66225-5667
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