Afimilk Cow Monitoring Solution

Afimilk
Silent Herdsman

Smart neck collar for top-grade heat detection
Best round-the-clock health monitoring (compared with other standalone sensors)
Measures rumination, eating and activity
Easy mounting on the neck
Easy-to-use management station
Free stalls and grazing

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AfiAct II

Smart leg tag for top grade heat detection, significantly improves pregnancy rates and fertility performance
Best round-the-clock health monitoring, based on rest behavior and activity
High sensitivity and less false alerts
Calving alert service
Accurate ID in the parlor
Powerful management software
Free stalls, grazing and tie stall

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Afimilk
Silent Herdsman

Best neck collar for cows & heifers

AfiAct II

Best leg tag for cows

Heat Detection

Improved pregnancy rates.
Timely detection leads to better pregnancy rates, shortens calving intervals and directly improves profitability.

Health Alerts

Prevention is the best medicine.
Monitoring of rumination, eating behavior, activity and rest behavior leads to early detection and better treatment.

You cannot make good decisions with bad data.
Afimilk cow monitoring sensors have been successfully used on millions of animals over 30 years, and have earned a reputation of being the most accurate in the industry.

Benefits

Labor savings

Automated cow monitoring enables you to reduce the labor associated with observation and procedures.

Fewer cow treatment events

Fewer procedures means less stressful events for the cows, gives the cows extra time to rest and eat, and also saves time for the farm staff.

Reduced involuntary culling

When cows remain open late into their lactation, it becomes uneconomical to rebreed them and they need to be culled. Automated heat detection reduces these events, and health monitoring reduces health-related culling.

Save up to 30 open days
per cow per lactation

Improve pregnancy rates using better and timely heat detection to reduce open days and increase profitability.

Reduction in hormone usage

Afimilk's top grade fertility management solution facilitates a reduction in hormone usage to reduce farm costs and cow stress related to hormone injections.

Features

Rumination & eating analysis
The Afimilk Silent Herdsman cow monitoring system uses rumination and eating analysis for the early detection of health issues such as:
- Ecoli mastitis
- Ketosis / Acidosis
- Rumen problems
- Feet problems
- Pneumonia
- Cystic cows
Calving alert service

The determination of calving time is a key factor in ensuring successful calving and optimized treatment, and even in saving lives of calves and cows. With the AfiAct II calving alert service, farmers can receive notifications directly to their mobile phones just before calving starts, and more importantly, when there is a prolonged calving, which often requires intervention. High risk calving (such as twins or after-induction) is specifically noted.

The service is highly accurate: typically calving will begin in four hours or less after the notification and false alerts are extremely rare.
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Rest behavior & activity analysis
Cow welfare, which includes rest time, affects performance. During rest, blood flow to mammary glands is 25% higher than during standing, and research shows that every hour of missed rest reduces milk yield by 1.7kg (3.7 lbs)*. AfiAct II alerts about cow restlessness in both individual cows (which may indicate illness), and in groups (which may indicate well-being); and also provides indications of:
- Bedding problems
- Heat stress
- Over-crowding
* Cows in free stall, resting under 11hr per day (Grant, 2007)
Management software
Afimilk's cow monitoring solution comes with mySilent Herdsman – a powerful yet easy-to-use software tool that can be accessed from your farm office’ desktop PC or a wall-mounted touch screen in the barn. The tool uses a cloud-based service to keep your data safe, and enable you to access it using a smartphone application from wherever you are – at home or on the road. A single dashboard gives you everything you need, including:
- Heat and health color-coded indications
- Filtered animal list
- Events and comprehensive animal details
- Integration with leading herd management tools such as AfiFarm and DC305
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24/7 detection, long-range transmission

The highly-scalable, low-maintenance Afimilk cow monitoring solutions offer automatic 24/7 monitoring and heat detection, and are cloud-based so wherever you are, you can receive heat detection and health data about your cows.
Reliable tags, long-life batteries

Afimilk cow monitoring systems use very reliable tags with extremely low failure rates that withstand harsh environmental conditions that cows may encounter daily, including mud, snow, moisture, low- or high temperatures, and more. The tags come with a full three-year warranty although their batteries are designed to last for even longer (at least 5-7 years).