Herdy/Changelog/Breeding planning: mating groups, calendar & fertility

Breeding planning: mating groups, calendar & fertility

Mating groups in one pass, the vet visit on a single screen, a breeding calendar with a year band, and herd fertility figures.

Breeding planning: mating groups, calendar & fertility

Breeding gains five new tools -- built for farms with natural service, mating groups and alpine summering.

Mating groups

  • One sire, many dams, one mating period instead of fifty individual entries
  • Every animal gets its own due date from species and breed -- a mixed group is not averaged into one date
  • Animals with a running mating are flagged and skipped by "select all", so no duplicates appear
  • For sheep and goats Herdy warns when the group outgrows the sire (BGK/SSPR reference figures)

Pregnancy examination for several animals

  • The whole vet visit on one screen: one examination date, one row per animal
  • Everything loads up front -- you can record without signal in the barn and save afterwards
  • For sheep and goats, record the number of foetuses for your feeding groups
  • Scanning an ear tag jumps to the matching row
  • "Unclear" no longer fizzles out: Herdy schedules a re-check automatically

Breeding calendar

  • Month view with recorded events and expected dates -- solid means it happened, outlined means it is expected
  • Cycle band per mating: service, check windows and due date on one timeline

Year band & backwards planner

  • Mating period, birth window, alpine season and actual births stacked -- so you can see how compact your lambing was
  • Backwards planner: "lambing should start on 15 March" -- Herdy works out when the sire has to go in, and warns about season conflicts
  • Print view for the lambing plan on the barn wall

Fertility figures

  • Age at first calving, calving interval, pregnancy rate, offspring per birth, stillbirth rate
  • Pregnancy rate per sire -- an empty sire costs a whole season, and nothing else reveals him
  • Every figure names its sample. If it is too small, Herdy shows no value, but how far off it is
  • Reference values from Mutterkuh Schweiz, Swissgenetics, BGK/SSPR, SSZV and FiBL sit alongside