Key facts: William O’Brien, Co. Waterford Ireland Herdsize: 181 Collars: 181 Yield: 7,000 Litres William explains: “My heat detection rates were decent enough, but then I took the decision to increase my herd size to over 180 cows. I had been tail painting and all of a sudden I was in a position where I […]
HerdInsights is a multi-metric, cloud-based ‘Smart Collar’ for dairy cows which improves the efficiency of farm breeding programmes and reduces health care costs through early illness detection. It is this ‘multi-metric’ approach to monitoring a cow’s oestrus activity, mounting and chin resting behaviour. By comparing these behaviours to the cows ‘normal’ that makes HerdInsights the […]
