CowManager introduces Youngstock Monitor

2 Dec 2024 News 2 min

Optimise rearing for future herd health and productivity

CowManager introduces Youngstock Monitor, a new comprehensive solution to monitor calf behaviour.

This innovative system provides real-time alerts for early disease detection and notifies producers when a calf may be falling behind its herd mates. With Youngstock Monitor and the new lightweight CowManager ear sensor, farmers need just one sensor per animal for its entire lifetime, from calf to cow.

Powered by artificial intelligence with ever-evolving algorithms, Youngstock Monitor adapts to each operation and the behavioural development of each calf, allowing farmers to make farm-specific predictions on the health of their individual calves and focus treatment in a targeted way.

Monitor Calf Health

The calf health alerts come in three levels: suspicious, sick and very sick, and detect subtle behavioural changes associated with illness often missed through visual observation. These alerts help facilitate quicker interventions, lower treatment intensity, reduce reliance on antibiotics and decrease mortality rates. Effective calf health management leads to increased future milk production and a healthier, more productive herd.

“With our innovative calf alerts, we can now monitor from calf to cow, for an animal’s entire lifetime. That is the CowManager vision”, says Gerard Griffioen, founder of CowManager.

“This approach helps producers maximise performance and build the foundation for a productive and healthy herd.”

Innovation Award

Youngstock Monitor earned a Silver Medal Innovation Award at EuroTier 2024 and is now available in several countries.

Read on for more information on monitoring youngstock.

CowManager's Youngstock Monitor

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.

Modules & Extra Functionalities

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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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Nutrition

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

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Transition

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

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Youngstock

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

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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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Draft my Cow

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

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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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