Youngstock

Optimise calf rearing and lay a strong foundation for future herd health and productivity.

A System for the Ages

Our Youngstock solution allows you to monitor the crucial development stages of your youngstock, so you can improve calf health while laying the foundation for a strong, productive herd. Stay on top of your herd from calf to cow with our lifetime monitoring system.

Youngstock Health Alerts

Efficiently manage your calves with our intelligent calf health alerts, designed to help you focus on calves in need of attention. Detect subtle behavioural changes associated with illness, often missed through visual observation, allowing for early disease detection and detailed recovery tracking.

The Youngstock monitor provides real-time alerts, ensuring each calf gets the attention it needs. This leads to timely interventions and lower treatment intensity, saving valuable time and labour.

Early disease detection is vital for minimising health risks and improving overall herd welfare. By focusing on the specific needs of youngstock, you can reduce mortality rates and give your herd a healthy foundation to grow on.

Powered by Artificial Intelligence

Our lightweight ear sensors are built to last, offering a seamless and continuous monitoring solution suited to your farm and each cow’s age.

Real-time monitoring ensures timely interventions during crucial events like group changes, weaning, and disbudding. Powered by a machine learning algorithm, our tailored calf health alerts adapt to the unique needs of your farm, helping you optimise herd management at every stage.

The calf development graph highlights the behavioural patterns of an individual calf compared to its group. By identifying deviations early, you can take proactive action during the critical first six months of life.

Building Your Future Herd

Keeping your herd as healthy as possible allowing you to maximise milk production and reproductive performance is easier to achieve with the Youngstock solution. A healthy herd begins with healthy calves. When you know all about the condition of each calf, heifer and cow, it’s easier to secure the future of your business.

Our Youngstock monitor is a comprehensive tool to manage calf health and herd welfare. A solution tailored to your farm, ensuring a good foundation for long-term herd health and enhanced productivity. Download our Calf Guide to know more about the importance of monitoring youngstock.

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Youngstock Benefits

Artificial Intelligence Algorithm

Our Artificial Intelligence algorithm tailors calf health alerts to your farm to help you optimise your calf management at every behavioural development stage.

Genetic Potential

Effective health management from calf to cow not only unveils the best of their genetic potential but also leads to increased future milk production.

From Calf to Cow

Our lightweight sensor is designed to last a lifetime, offering a seamless and continuous monitoring solution tailored to your farm and your cow's life phase.

CowManager's Solutions

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Health

Get a health alert up to 3 days before any signs of clinical illness and monitor a cow's recovery in detail.

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Fertility

Increase profit with timely insemination. Know exactly when a cow is in heat and when to inseminate.

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Transition

Identify cows susceptible to transition cow diseases and prevent health issues post-calving.

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Find my Cow

Find a cow that’s in heat, sick or in the pasture within seconds with our Locator and Flash tools.

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Auto Drafting

Separate cows with heat or health alerts from the rest of the herd with the integrated Auto Drafting functionality.

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MultiView

Give your staff, veterinarian, nutritionist, and other advisors access to selected cow data.

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Get a Personalised Quote

Ready to maximise your pregnancy rates and make breeding a breeze? Reduce sick cows and identify when they’re at risk? We’ll make sure you’re always a step ahead and fully prepared. Request a personalised quote now.

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Transition

Experience smoother transitions and healthier herds with our advanced Transition monitor.

Ensure Optimal Health with the Transition Monitor

CowManager’s Transition identifies cows at risk up to 50 days before calving, ensuring proactive intervention and reducing transition diseases. Monitoring eating and rumination behaviours helps detect cows that are susceptible to transition cow diseases and prevents health issues post-calving.

Transition Cow Diseases

The CowManager system gives you the opportunity to improve your cows’ transition management. Dry cows that show reduced eating and rumination behaviour are at higher risk of becoming ill after calving.

75% of all adult cow disease events occur in the first 30 days after calving. The Transition solution helps to detect cows that are susceptible to transition diseases such as milk fever, metritis, ketosis, and displaced abomasum.

It gives you the power to act proactively when it matters most; during one of the most vulnerable periods of a cow’s life.

The transition alert differs from a health alert, as clinical signs are often not displayed during the transition period. Reduced eating and rumination times during the transition period for cows may be caused by inflammatory responses such as undiagnosed mastitis and lameness, or chronic stress resulted from overcrowding.

By detecting subtle changes in their behaviour and eating patterns before symptoms become visible, CowManager monitors the cows that need attention and, more importantly, prevent post-calving diseases by taking early action.

The system not only provides insights into individual cow behaviour but also group behaviour during critical events like dry off and calving.

Smooth Transition, Stronger Herd

By monitoring possible at-risk cows and providing them with the needed supportive treatment, the transition period doesn’t need to be a period which cows need to recover from.

Our Transition monitor gives you in-depth insights into the transition period of individual cows as well as on group level, to help you spot underperforming cows and help improve your overall transition management.

An extra eye on dry cows and fresh cows means a smoother transition back to the milking herd.

Transition Benefits

Monitor Transition, Reduce Risk

The Transition Monitor identifies cows at risk up to 50 days before calving, ensuring proactive intervention and reducing transition diseases.

Improve Feed Management

Take your feed management to the next level and monitor ration changes closely. Gain more control to achieve the goals set for your herd.

Stress Less About Heat Stress

Identify heat stress at a very early stage and prevent increased incidence of diseases. This helps to keep your herd and business healthy.

CowManager's Solutions

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Health

Get a health alert up to 3 days before any signs of clinical illness and monitor a cow's recovery in detail.

Read more about Health
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Fertility

Increase profit with timely insemination. Know exactly when a cow is in heat and when to inseminate.

Read more about Fertility
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Nutrition

Prevent heat stress and disease, take your feed management to the next level, and achieve the goals set for your herd.

Read more about Nutrition
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Youngstock

Effective calf health management leads to increased future milk production and a healthier, stronger herd.

Read more about Youngstock
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Find my Cow

Find a cow that’s in heat, sick or in the pasture within seconds with our Locator and Flash tools.

Read more about Find my Cow
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Auto Drafting

Separate cows with heat or health alerts from the rest of the herd with the integrated Auto Drafting functionality.

Read more about Auto Drafting
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MultiView

Give your staff, veterinarian, nutritionist, and other advisors access to selected cow data.

Read more about MultiView
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Draft my Cow

Automatically separate cows with our NZ-made drafting gate. Built to last in extreme weather conditions.

Read more about Draft my Cow

Get a Personalised Quote

Ready to see how our Transition solution can support your herd’s health and productivity? We’ll make sure you’re always a step ahead and fully prepared. Request a personalised quote now.

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Nutrition

Boost efficiency and gain control over your business with actionable insights into dairy cow nutrition.

Cow Nutrition is Vital

Cow nutrition is the motor that drives a healthy dairy business. Effective feed management can create a powerful base for your herd health – and your success. With the Nutrition monitor, you’re able to dive into daily and hourly cow nutrition graphs.

Improve Cow Feeding Efficiency

For dairy farmers, monitoring what goes into a cow’s diet and understanding the significance of feed management can make all the difference in optimising herd health and milk production. Keeping a close eye on what your cows eat ensures they receive the right balance of nutrients. This not only affects their health, but your bottom line as well.

CowManager allows dairy farmers to precisely manage their herd’s dietary needs. It helps tailor nutrition plans to individual cows, ensuring they receive the right mix of proteins, vitamins, and minerals. This targeted approach can boost milk yields, enhance reproductive performance, and improve overall herd health.

Manage Cow Diet and Group Health

Over 50% of your daily variable costs are probably feed related, so it’s essential to make it count. With our low feed intake group alerts you’re able to detect severe drops in the group’s eating pattern. This makes it easy to monitor deviations, so you can adjust your feed strategy in time.

The Nutrition solution has different types of group alerts: heat stress, low feed intake, group stress and group health. All these alerts give you the tools you need to stay on top of feed management and group performance.

Get to the bottom of your group’s eating and rumination behaviour by checking the group overview graph. This graph gives an overview of feeding practices per group over time, or compare groups with one another.

Detect Heat Stress and Optimise Cow Nutrition

Heat stress leads to an increased incidence of diseases, impairs reproduction, and reduces milk production. Sometimes it’s unpreventable, but our heat stress group alert makes you aware of heat stress and its severity. Ear temperature, activity and changes in eating and rumination are the perfect parameters for heat stress detection.

CowManager provides an overview of both current and past heat stress cases, enabling you to compare data across years and improve your heat abatement strategy to prevent future heat stress.

The MultiView functionality gives remote users access to your CowManager system with just a click. Track group ration changes with your team, analyse nutritional requirements for cows in need, and monitor cows closely during the transition period.

Nutrition Benefits

Monitor Transition, Reduce Risk

The Transition Monitor identifies cows at risk up to 50 days before calving, ensuring proactive intervention and reducing transition diseases.

Improve Feed Management

Take your feed management to the next level and monitor ration changes closely. Gain more control to achieve the goals set for your herd.

Stress Less About Heat Stress

Identify heat stress at a very early stage and prevent increased incidence of diseases. This helps to keep your herd and business healthy.

CowManager's Solutions

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Health

Get a health alert up to 3 days before any signs of clinical illness and monitor a cow's recovery in detail.

Read more about Health
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Fertility

Increase profit with timely insemination. Know exactly when a cow is in heat and when to inseminate.

Read more about Fertility
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Transition

Identify cows susceptible to transition cow diseases and prevent health issues post-calving.

Read more about Transition
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Find my Cow

Find a cow that’s in heat, sick or in the pasture within seconds with our Locator and Flash tools.

Read more about Find my Cow
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Auto Drafting

Separate cows with heat or health alerts from the rest of the herd with the integrated Auto Drafting functionality.

Read more about Auto Drafting
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MultiView

Give your staff, veterinarian, nutritionist, and other advisors access to selected cow data.

Read more about MultiView

Get a Personalised Quote

Stop guessing. Always know when to inseminate and keep on top of cow health monitoring, from calf to cow. Ready to use our dairy technology to unlock your herd’s full potential? Request a personalised quote.

Get a Quote

Health

Get a grip on cow health with our 24/7 cow health monitoring system. Catch diseases early and track recovery in close detail.

Monitor Your Herd's Health

When a cow gets an infection, the blood in the ears moves to vital organs. A crucial sign which can save you a lot of problems. Our Health Module provides early disease detection and helps businesses improve cow health management.

More Efficient Cow Health Monitoring

Successful dairy farming starts with a healthy herd. Your cow’s ears are full of vital information which tells you how they’re doing. Our ear sensors monitor the well-being of your herd 24/7. Track your cows’ rumination, eating, inactivity, activity, ear temperature and high active behaviour.

Is a cow not eating, not ruminating, or is there a change in her behaviour? You’ll get alerted immediately, so you can intervene at an early stage. Our cow health monitor helps you pick up on cow diseases like displaced abomasum, mastitis, ketosis, and E. coli before symptoms show. Allowing you to tackle cow health management proactively, rather than reactively.

Improve Health Management

Monitoring cow health with the Health solution is very straight-forward. The system actively alerts you whenever a cow’s behaviour changes compared to before, considering their temperature compared to the herd average, as well as group changes that might cause stress. The alerts notify you of different stages of a cow’s health.

With CowManager, all cow health care data is always at your fingertips. Health graphs show the rumination, eating, resting (not active), active and high active behaviour per cow. The graph can display these behaviours either per hour or per day, allowing users to deep dive into a cow’s health and compare their behaviour to previous days.

A Clear Approach on Cow Health

Proactive cow health monitoring not only helps to prevent your cows from getting sick; it helps your dairy business in the long run. Fewer health issues and more accurate treatment don’t just save costs and time, but are better for the overall performance of your herd. When you have a better handle on cow health, you can reduce the use of antibiotics and cow losses, while increasing pregnancy rates and milk production. Our health data shows that CowManager cows live longer, perform better and are in better shape.

Give your veterinarian, herdsperson, and other specialists remote access to selected data via the always included MultiView function, so they can monitor your herd’s performance as well. That way, you can keep an eye on cow health together, and make sure every cow in the herd stays as healthy as possible or gets nursed back to health successfully.

Health Benefits

Monitor Your Herd’s Health 24/7

Our Health Module provides early disease detection. CowManager cows live longer, produce more milk, are in better shape and therefore perform better.

Catch Diseases Early, Reduce Sick Cows

Get alerted immediately when a cow isn't ruminating or eating, and intervene proactively. Pick up on diseases like mastitis and ketosis at an early stage.

Improve Herd Performance

Your cow's ears are full of vital information. Monitor their rumination, eating, inactivity, activity, ear temperature, and high active behaviour.

CowManager's Solutions

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Fertility

Increase profit with timely insemination. Know exactly when a cow is in heat and when to inseminate.

Read more about Fertility
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Transition

Identify cows susceptible to transition cow diseases and prevent health issues post-calving.

Read more about Transition
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Nutrition

Prevent heat stress and disease, take your feed management to the next level, and achieve the goals set for your herd.

Read more about Nutrition
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Youngstock

Effective calf health management leads to increased future milk production and a healthier, stronger herd.

Read more about Youngstock
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Draft my Cow

Automatically separate cows with our NZ-made drafting gate. Built to last in extreme weather conditions.

Read more about Draft my Cow
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Find my Cow

Find a cow that’s in heat, sick or in the pasture within seconds with our Locator and Flash tools.

Read more about Find my Cow
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Auto Drafting

Separate cows with heat or health alerts from the rest of the herd with the integrated Auto Drafting functionality.

Read more about Auto Drafting
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MultiView

Give your staff, veterinarian, nutritionist, and other advisors access to selected cow data.

Read more about MultiView

Get a Personalised Quote

Stop guessing. Always know when to inseminate and keep on top of cow health monitoring, from calf to cow. Ready to use our dairy technology to unlock your herd’s full potential? Request a personalised quote.

Get a Quote

Fertility

Never miss a heat and increase profit with timely insemination. Our dairy cow heat detection system makes mating season a breeze.

More Than Heat Detection

Stop guessing your cows’ cycles. With our Fertility solution you’ll always know when to inseminate – but it’s so much more than heat detection alone. Track heat intensity and heat stage, and monitor cows for possible fertility issues after calving.

Unlock Your Dairy Herd’s Fertility

One look at your phone or pc and you’ve got all the data about heat detection, heat intensity and heat stage of each individual cow. Heat peaks, possible pregnancies, non-cycling cows, and even potential abortions – our easy-to-use electronic heat detection identifies it all.

With an overview of accurate data you’ll know exactly when a cow is in heat and when to inseminate. Our smart ear sensors measure the heat stage of each individual cow and give you a heads-up when there are fertility issues, making mating season and joining that much easier.

Efficient and Accurate Heat Detection

The system makes it as easy as possible to monitor the fertility of your dairy cows. Cows in heat usually show increased activity and a drop in rumination at the same time. It’s exactly these two factors that our digital fertility monitor is able to monitor with impressive accuracy. Our heat detection device knows exactly when your cattle is in heat; and so will you.

We monitor behaviour like rumination combined with high activity and share alerts like ‘Potential, ‘Suspicious’ and ‘In Heat’. By clicking on a specific alert, you can view the activity graph of an individual cow. Of course, we calculate and refresh all alerts every hour, so you’ll always have the latest information.

13% Increased 6-Week In-Calf Rate

Michael Shearer of Herbon Farming Ltd. runs two farms; one in West Coast and one in Reefton. He manages 450 cows in one location and 230 cows in the other. Thanks to CowManager, he’s able to be present at both farms and monitor and manage them wherever he is. His overall fertility results have improved significantly since using CowManager’s Fertility solution.

Curious to see what CowManager could do for your farm?

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Fertility Benefits

24/7 Real-time Data, Never Miss a Heat

Catch heat peaks, possible pregnancies, non-cycling cows and potential abortions. Never miss a thing.

Always Know When to Inseminate

Our alerts and Insemination Window tell you the best time to inseminate a cow. This makes mating and breeding a breeze.

Confidently Use Sexed Semen

View cycling and fertility history in Fertility Insights and see if a cow is suited to be mated to sexed semen.

CowManager Insemination Window

One of the most unique features of our dairy cow heat detection system is our insemination window. It provides a precise visual of the optimal time of insemination per individual cow. This way, more cows can be successfully inseminated, which results in a higher pregnancy rate and better numbers overall.

It’s also possible to filter out cows that are within the optimal timing of insemination for sexed semen. You won’t have to waste valuable product because you’ll know exactly which cows are ready for insemination.

Aftercare with Fertility Insights

Our Fertility Insights functionality tells you which cows could have potential fertility problems.

Does the system still detect a cow’s heat activity and gives a heat alert after insemination? Then the insemination probably wasn’t successful. When an inseminated cow doesn’t get a heat alert, it’s possible to check her for pregnancy. If the cow is confirmed pregnant, Fertility Insights will monitor the cow for possible abortion.

After calving it’s important to keep an eye on cows without heat alerts; this can indicate possible fertility problems. With Fertility Insights you’ll know everything about every cow’s fertility cycle.

Get a Personalised Quote

Stop guessing. Always know when to inseminate and keep on top of cow health monitoring, from calf to cow. Ready to use our dairy technology to unlock your herd’s full potential? Request a personalised quote.

Get a Quote

CowManager's Solutions

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Health

Get a health alert up to 3 days before any signs of clinical illness and monitor a cow's recovery in detail.

Read more about Health
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Transition

Identify cows susceptible to transition cow diseases and prevent health issues post-calving.

Read more about Transition
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Nutrition

Prevent heat stress and disease, take your feed management to the next level, and achieve the goals set for your herd.

Read more about Nutrition
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Youngstock

Effective calf health management leads to increased future milk production and a healthier, stronger herd.

Read more about Youngstock
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Find my Cow

Find a cow that’s in heat, sick or in the pasture within seconds with our Locator and Flash tools.

Read more about Find my Cow
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Auto Drafting

Separate cows with heat or health alerts from the rest of the herd with the integrated Auto Drafting functionality.

Read more about Auto Drafting
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MultiView

Give your staff, veterinarian, nutritionist, and other advisors access to selected cow data.

Read more about MultiView
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Draft my Cow

Automatically separate cows with our NZ-made drafting gate. Built to last in extreme weather conditions.

Read more about Draft my Cow