Originally Posted by
bluebird2
Whether one likes or opposes ARs may be a matter of opinion, but it is a fact that in PA, breeding rate and productivity decreased after ARs and the breeding window remained the same. Those facts show conclusively that there is not biological reason to implement ARs.
Whatever your position on AR's the PA information quoted above is a nominal decline at best due to a shift in the sampling emphasis that resulted in a higher sampling of pregnant does in porrer areas. The jury is still out on this one guys.