Mating: breeding dates and expected births
Mating brings a female and male animal together so fertilisation can take place. Breeding may use natural service or artificial insemination. Knowing the date, method and sire helps you follow each animal's breeding history, plan pregnancy checks, estimate the calving, lambing or kidding date and prepare for the next lactation.
How do mating details help plan lambing?
For example, a ewe is inseminated on 3 March with semen from a named ram. Knowing the date, method and sire helps you estimate when she will lamb and trace her lambs' breeding later.
Questions from the farm
Is mating the same as a pregnancy check?
Mating is the breeding event. A pregnancy check later confirms whether the animal became pregnant, so keep the dates and results separate.
How HerdMobile helps
Bring your animals, feed stocks and farm accounts together on your Android phone. HerdMobile keeps your daily work moving offline: record events, compare feed quantities and follow sales and payments in one place. Use your own feeds and herd information to prepare a ration, then keep a backup file under your control.
HerdMobile helps you follow each animal's breeding history as your herd changes. Keep mating dates with your breeding notes so you can plan pregnancy checks and expected births. Cattle, sheep and goats have different gestation lengths, so plan each animal's dates for its species.
