Spaying in Dynama+

The term “spaying” can have a variety of meanings in the Dynama+ program. It broadly refers to keeping a group of cows out of the mating group, thus “spaying” will include females that are set aside after surgical spaying before mating, or it can just mean keeping female livestock in a separate paddock away from bulls. Conversely, late spaying (or “webbing”) which will allow the cow to calve, or spaying after calving, should not be entered in the current year as spaying (though these cows will certainly be “spays” in the following year and can be shown as being spayed then if not already sold).