“The Heatime System works like a mobile phone or iPhone. If you can use an iPhone you can use Heatime.”
Col Cowan, Owner and Operator
Challenges
As a farm that relies mainly on natural increase, Budgeree Holsteins needs to be particularly adept at picking up heats.
System
Allflex Heatime® HR System for heat detection, health monitoring
and cow identification. functionality, with HR tags.
and cow identification. functionality, with HR tags.
Benefits
“If the cow has been on 8-10 hours I will AI her right away, particularly if I know I’ll be alone at the next milking, since I’m the only one on the farm certified for AI.”
At a Glance
- Company: Budgeree Holsteins
- Location: Hannam Vale, New South Wales, Australia
- Herd Size: 210 milking cows, and 220 heifers and dry cows
Summary
The Allflex Heatime HR System is also proving a big time saver. Instead of spending two hours per day on observation and tail painting, it’s more like half an hour. And, “If the cow is cystic or you want to know how many days she’s been in heat, the records for each cow are right there at your fingertips in the system, so you don’t have to go look at your log book, which also saves time.”
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Cows are now calving after
12-13
months instead of 16 months
