The answer is YES, heat does affect fertility adversly. Men, bulls, roosters, goats, sheep, most mammals. Sperm is quite temperature sensitive.
One of the first pieces of advice for men is to change from tight undershorts to the loose boxer style, to keep the area cooler. And no, you will not get as many eggs that have been well fertilized by a rooster in the middle of summer when it's hot.
It's just nature. We are past the best season for starting babies that will mature enough to stand a hard winter. Sheep and goats will come into mating season as the weather cools down, as they need 5 months pregnancy, so the babies will come in early spring, at the right time.
Even honeybees do it. They are still swarming some, but the ones that are most likely to survive the winter already did and have a new hive well established and honey storage well started.
Diane S.
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The rooster is about a year and a half old. EM
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