I may have a problem.

I had my girl blood grouped and no one seems to understand the result, i've even spoken to another company offering this service and they weren't sure.

I am having her re-grouped asap (the swab has been sent out to me).

What do i do if she turns out to be incompatible with the stud she was mated to, she is currently 5 weeks pregnant?

I know the kittens can fade and die if they suckle from the mothers colostrum but i've heard this can be prevented by keeping them away from mum for the 1st 24 hours? Is it just a caseof not letting them suckle from her, or do you have to keep them completely separate?


I know everything might turn out to be fine but i want to be prepared for the worst?

Anyone have any experience of this?

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Alison what group is the dad?

If he is B then you have no problems whether your Queen is A, A carrying b or B. If he is A and your Queen is B then you will have a blood incompatibility issue.......

What is the result they gave you?

as above

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as above aswell lol!

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Don't panic - even if your girl is group B you can still have healthy kittens if the first 24 hours after birth are carefully managed.

I was told by a breeder to wait for 18 hours before letting the kittens suckle and hand feed during that time (in the end I decided to use a group B stud, so it didn't matter). But perhaps 24 hours is safer. I believe you need to separate them but keep them close to each other, so mum can still see and hear them...newborn kittens make a beeline for the nipple and are surprisingly quick!

I'm sure an experienced breeder on here can advise you. Where did you get the testing done?

Is this 100% correct?

According to:

Dr. Addie - Feline Blood Groups

agreed but i thought we were talking about a first mating?

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True. Hopefully it will be fine.

The stud is type A.

I was told by the breeder that my girl was likely to be A but the test results are as follows;

Test result: b / non -b
Interpretation: b / non -b = type A or type AB (carrier of b)

That test was done by the animal DNA laboratory in Australia, i am now having her re-tested by Langford Vets.

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Alison, may I ask why you re-tested your girl? Isn't the result quite clearly showing that she's an A carrying b? Labs do (I think, anyway) report blood group results in a very confusing format but I've never had a problem with animalsdna in Aussie and my cats' results have, to the best of my knowlecdge, always been 100% reliable.