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