Get Cow Status 24/7 in the Palm of your Hand
Imagine having the ability to monitor your cows, wherever they are and wherever you are, so you can make timely decisions about health, breeding, feed management and grazing – all from your smart phone or your office.
Today that is possible, and affordable, with SenseHub™ Beef, an electronic animal-monitoring solution from Allflex® Livestock Intelligence.
SenseHub Beef delivers actionable information on health and wellbeing of individual cows and groups. It is useful in detecting heats, so breeding programs can be timed for improved conception rates. Even a small increase in conception rates generates a big impact on pregnancies.
The monitoring system supports use of advanced reproductive technology with a highly accurate breeding window and a score of estrus intensity to improve heat detection. The system will also detect if an animal comes back into heat, indicating the cow is open, the first-cycle AI did not take or an embryo transfer failed in a recip.
The system measures activities that are associated with wellbeing, such as rumination, feeding and motion. If these are out of its normal pattern, SenseHub Beef sends an alert to inspect a certain animal that may be in distress, is off feed or is having calving or other health difficulties. A timely response can catch problems at early onset and potentially reduce losses.
How SenseHub Beef works
A high-tech ear tag monitors movement and sends data to a system antenna, which can cover 40 acres. The data readers are often placed near water or feed sources, but several antennas can be linked up to cover larger areas. Tags have a three-year life and can be transferred to different animals.
Actionable data is available roughly 10 days after applying the tag. SenseHub Beef gathers real-time information on rumination, eating, activity and other parameters and reports it every 20 minutes. The system uses algorithms to analyze each tagged animal. The reports are viewed in a dashboard to-do list format in near real-time plus as a view of trend data analytics.
Better reproduction
Precise cycling information, including highly accurate heat detection, detection of anestrus cows, and cows suspected for abortion, makes breeding more cost-effective and uses labor more effectively. AI users benefit from precise timing, while in natural-breeding herds, knowing the date of last heat recorded in the system helps to predict calving date and other timely information.
Better health management
Accurate health reports provide actionable insight on each cow for proactive health management. This is pertinent to wellbeing of the cows during breeding, calving and weaning phases, in feed management during winter and catching stressors that affect normal behavior patterns, such as foot rot or summer pneumonia. Rumination and eating are among the first things to change when other symptoms may not yet be visible.
Better use of time and labor
SenseHub Beef provides a way to step away from the operation and perform other activities. Monitoring helps in labor scheduling and management. If hired help is not feeding animals on time, that pattern will quickly be evident and can be corrected. Busy families that have another business or jobs in town, are on the run with kids’ activities, can stay on top of cow-herd status while doing other things.
Better decision making
Having more precise information on health and breeding status allows producers to handle animals more efficiently. A team can get SenseHub reports, so hired help, a spouse or family member, or even service providers like veterinarians, can see the same data. SenseHub Beef provides a window on subtle things that are happening in the herd, and when intervention is needed, it can be done in a timely, informed way.
Schedule a demo at www.Sensehubbeef.com. Or contact Allflex Livestock Intelligence at 800-989-8247.
