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
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.