Peter Hynes: Why we gave up on heat detection collars – and why we’re delighted we went back to them

Collars save a huge amount of time when they work correctly

'The heat-detection system delivered for us and the app was easy to use'

Peter Hynes

Once bitten twice shy, and we had been wary of heat detection and health monitoring collars since they went wrong for us a couple of years back.

They worked fine for the first two seasons but then started to cause huge issues where collars were not working — and weren’t notifying us that they had stopped sending data.