“We moved from five or six displaced abomasum surgeries in one year to having the same number of cases, but in three years.”
Darío Brunotto, manager
Challenges
Stabilize heat detection results and monitor rumination
System
Allflex Heatime® HR with HR and HRLDn collars for real-time heat detection and health monitoring.
Benefits
Milkfat has increased from 3.1% to 3.75% and displaced abomasum problems have been minimized, while six hours daily of manual labor for visual heat detection are freed for other tasks.
At a Glance
- Company: Pozo del Avestruz Dairy, Hijos de Lorenzo Brunotto
- Location: Villa San Esteban, Córdoba Province Argentina
- Herd Size: 300 cows
Summary
The time-saving benefits achieved are overwhelming. Visual heat detection in three herds used to mean a minimum of six hours per day for one person. With the Allflex Heatime® Pro system, that time is now invested in other tasks. In fact, it has had such a strong impact in terms of efficiency, that farm management compares it to the impact of automating milking machine washing. As Darío says: “It would be really very difficult to return to visual heat detection”.
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