The German family Scharninghausen is excited to work with the CowManager system. It’s not the first cow monitoring system they have worked with, but it is the one that’s here to stay.
The family says: “We have been working with CowManager for 3 months now. We already worked with a heat detection system in the past, but since we moved into the new stable in 2014, we didn’t use a heat detection system at all. You can imagine that with 220 cows, the overview of all you cows regarding the fertility and health state could be missing.”
Having that overview is exactly why the family decided to go with CowManager instead.
CowManager intervenes quicker
“We chose CowManager because it shows us three totally different modules; Fertility, Health and Nutrition. The Health Module displays 24/7 eating behavior, rumination and activity behavior as well as an ear temperature graph. In case of deviations, the CowManager app will send an alert directly to my mobile phone.”
It also saves them a lot of time, having that extra set of eyes on their herd at all times. And the system doesn’t miss anything.
“In the calving period, the cows can be observed easily. By working with CowManager we can intervene quicker than with our own eyes. Without the heat detection system we would have definitely missed a couple of cows.”
Simple to use
Another thing that attracted the Scharninghausens to the ear sensor system is the ease of use. Installation and adoption of the technology is simple and the ear sensor goes over cows’ ear tags in a very user-friendly, non-invasive way.
“CowManager is easy to install and simple to use. Also the application of the sensor in the cows ear is easy.”