“We have a better understanding of each cow’s health, heat and stress parameters and can act pre-emptively to combat problems such as lameness, mastitis and poor fertility.”
Olly Reed, Owner
Challenges
Monitoring heat and health with a small staff was an issue. Reed was looking at gathering yield and reproductive data throughout the entire production cycle
System
Allflex Heatime® Pro System with HRLDn tags for real-time heat detection and health monitoring
Benefits
The Heatime Pro System learns each individual cow’s activity parameters and enables even the faintest of heats to be detected.
At a Glance
- Company: France Farm
- Location:Cullompton, Devon, England
- Herd Size:160 dairy cows
Summary
“The systems we have in place are already helping us to react more quickly to each cow’s individual needs and to prevent minor health issues escalating into bigger problems. That has helped to increase productivity and extend cow longevity, which in turn makes the entire dairy enterprise easier to manage and more profitable.”
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