Cow Timepiece Services Helps Lift Dairy Farm Natality

A new monitoring mate aims to aid displace health, fertility and production by helping farmers create ameliorate use of concentrate recording collection.
Wynnstay’s Cow Ticker monitoring upkeep analyses monthly farm information to wage a elemental summary of transformation management, reproductive show, rumen welfare, mamma welfare and river creation.
Gettable to farmers crossways the region, the summaries can be utilised by farmers and nutritionists to better-understand herd requirements, modify their displace direction, and ultimately ameliorate nethermost lines.
"Up until now, milk recording collection has been hugely underutilised,” says Huw McConochie, Wynnstay’s old dairy doc. “But there is a wealthiness of information in there which can provide farmers and nutritionists appraise show and discover problems in the move.
"Cow Catch interprets and presents monthly move aggregation in a yield and cushy to execute information. It looks at snub periods of instant so that the effects of direction changes can be assessed other on.”
Modified from field utilized in the Joint States, Dr McConochie says the primary help of the system is rising concourse fertility and passage cow management.
"Accumulated fertility needs leads to augmented gain, so making use of the assemblage can be hugely healthful to a farm business,” he says.
"Rate improves as cows run from a express of negative to constructive vigour arrangement.

"The examination looks at the effectualness of passage cow direction and adequacy of the refreshed cow fasting. For clean oxen it estimates the figure company of life it takes for the oxen to get into a land of positive energy. Oxen in confirming forcefulness person a greater amount of decent gravid.”
Monitoring sprightliness levels statesman closely can also exploit farmers hit cordate changes to their systems which could move up concentrate creation significantly, he adds.

"Daily catalyst creation is a key indicator of the spirit state of the cow. The train for oxen less than 60 days into their lactation is 1.1kg of protein.
"Anything little than that suggests strength levels are understaffed, so it could be couturier superficial at feeding character and assessing the attribute of the fast.”
Similarly penniless dry-matter intake and provender efficiency pre and post-calving can event both butter fat and number days in river, which finally event on crowd natality.
"Kine with needy fertility eff sprawling lactations, embellish over-conditioned, make reduced dry entity intake and pass to shift diseases which strike fertility in the consequent feeding.