Surely a high non-return rate (NRR) is what we are after, isn’t it? Well yes of course it is, as NRR is the earliest proxy of conception rate we have; however a high NRR doesn’t necessarily mean that conception rates are high. The NRR is the percentage of...
Monitoring your submission rate during mating is very important, as it allows early detection of a problem. If your submission rates are poor, your reproductive performance will be poor. High-performing farms will achieve around 95% 3-week submission rate in their...